Grandma and the "open-air pharmacy"
I was sitting in front of the fireplace, but the flame, although high and very lively, could not take away from me the "trembling" that made me push my neck between my shoulders and clasp my hands between my knees, looking for a shelter from the cold that I felt inside.
The grandmother, hinting at a smile of complicity, ran her fingers through my hair, covered herself with her woolen scarf and went out. I don´t know how much time passed, but when I opened my eyes again I saw her in front of me, with a cup of steaming herbal tea asking me to drink it. She had gone into the fields, found "her" magical herbs and prepared an infusion. Early to bed and the next day ... perfectly healed, with Grandma´s herbs!
This happened for all of us children (but, I learned, also for the adults of the large family), for every "evil": grandma went to the fields and prepared the remedy. Hematomas, skinned knees, bellyaches, toothaches, headaches, constipation or diarrhea, high fever, coughs, intestinal parasites, lice in the hair, red eyes, and everything else that a child (or an adult) could have, had no secrets for grandma and her herbs. At the time, I didn´t understand the preciousness of living in the country, in an "open-air pharmacy," in the company of my grandmother and her herbal expertise! Not only did she know how to make preparations with herbs, barks, roots, and bee products, but she gave you the precise information when, making you (without discussion) "undergo the therapies", she told you about those plants, how they had to be harvested and how to prepare the remedy. When I lost my grandmother, I lost the link with that world and, as an adult, in the city, I treated myself with the "pharmacy in a room". For twenty-five years, however, with Mei´s products you can live in the city, in the most cemented condominiums of the big metropolises and have a child (or an adult) with the same problems as then you can open the door of the "open-air pharmacy" and take the Mei natural remedy: the same one that grandma would have prepared! You can be fine even if you live in environments with yellow grass, sad plants and don´t have a grandmother who knows about wild herbs. Mei collects for you wild-growing plants in their original habitats; selects the barks, roots and leaves from unpolluted areas; checks their medicinal power; processes them in the same ancient way and has them delivered to your home by a "grandmother´s granddaughter" (the Consultant) who tells you everything you need to know to enjoy the powerful effects of Mei´s products. The detailed and precise information and the effectiveness of the natural compounds recreate the same climate of trust between grandmother and grandson and keep alive the culture of traditional herbalism, seen in a modern key. The Mei Consultant and Mother Nature are the two horses of the wagon that carries wellness into every home. Open the doors to information and natural products because, in the cities where we live, the grass has run out and no one helps you anymore by telling you that you can trust the power of nature and twenty-five years of herbalist experience!