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Mistletoe plus New Year Offer

Created on: 2024-12-31

Modified on: 2025-01-02

As we see in the last night of the Yuletide celebrations, have you ever wondered where the New Year traditions around mistletoe come from?

If you're out celebrating, here's some health history, and some trivia that might help you ease into a midnight kiss . . .

Our earliest writings about British customs were written by the Romans, who record that over 2,000 years ago, the Druids revered mistletoe, and would ceremonially cut it from oak trees with a golden knife.

They believed it would protect its bearer from evil, and they used it to cure many illnesses.

Its association with this time of year is likely due to the fact that it's an evergreen, and its fruit ripens in December. As Grieve writes:

"[The Druids] sent round their attendant youth with branches of the Mistletoe to announce the entrance of the new year."

Medicinally, it is nervine, anti-spasmodic, and narcotic. It has especially been used in the treatment of epilepsy, and other convulsive disorders. It also has anti-cancer effects.

Note: as with many powerful plant medicines, care is required, and it should only be taken under qualified supervision, as, if taken incorrectly, it can cause the very seizures it can otherwise prevent.

What about its association with kissing? There are a number of sources for this.

In old Scandinavia, mistletoe plays a central role in the myths of their gods. The God of Peace, Baldur, was killed with a mistletoe dart. The other gods and godesses then pleaded for his return to life, which eventually happened.

After this, according to one telling, the mistletoe was given to his mother, Frigg, the Goddess of Love, after which:

"it was ordained that everyone who passed under it should receive a kiss, to show that the branch had become an emblem of love . . . ."

But the association with love might equally be inspired by other medicinal properties of the plant: it was used in old times for fertility, and as an aphrodisiac.

Another New Year Tradition . . .

. . . is the making of New Year Resolutions. There's no better time to set an intention than after we're fully rested and ready to face the new year ahead.

Many take this opportunity to set goals for better health.

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Healing Truths wishes all readers a happy, prosperous, and healthy 2025.

Note

: Grieve, A Modern Herbal, 1931

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