With its connection to the Fire element and the Heart chakra, Fireweed dissolves fear and makes way for love.

Emotional experience is recorded on the Heart. In Chinese medicine, the Heart is the home of Shen, or consciousness. When our heart is broken or damaged from excessive emotional insult, the Spirit does not feel at home, and becomes restless. It can even temporarily vacate the body, as in cases of severe shock. Fireweed eases the Heart and gently coaxes the Shen back into embodiment. It allows us to experience love as a vital force in our lives and dissolves feelings of separation from self and others.

Physically this remedy improves circulation. It softens muscles and fascia in the chest and upper back.

Emotionally it allow us to embrace each relationship as a new experience without residue from previous ones.

After a forest has been clear cut and slash burned, Fireweed is the first plant to grow. One can see a purple magenta haze over the ugly burned stumps. This is Mother Earth's way of loving herself back to health.