Arbutus helps us to experience ourselves as embodiment of Spirit. It alleviates the feeling of sadness which can occur when we feel limited by physical reality. It allows us to experience ourselves as Spirit unfolding.

This is the remedy to take when we feet lost and homesick, when all our efforts seem futile and we feel like orphans far away from our true home.

Physically, Arbutus affects Lungs which are always depleted by sadness. This is a remedy for being able to hang on tightly and let go lightly, embracing life experience and simultaneously recognizing that our lives are a fragment of a much larger, magnificent tapestry. The breath flows in and out without conscious direction. We can navigate the course of our lives with similar ease. There is a part of each of us that remembers who we really are and can access that connection to our Source. It is said that Hun, the spirit of the Wood element in Chinese medicine, is the only spirit that returns with us to successive incarnations. When the Liver is healthy, we are able to follow the impulse of our individual growth towards wholeness.

Emotionally it helps us to move through homesickness, the inner longing of the soul to find its true home.