About Herbal Incantation

Working in health field taught me a strange truth.

Most “natural” companies don’t stay natural for long.
They get bought. They get diluted. Their mission thins out, their formulas get padded with preservatives, and suddenly chemicals are wearing plant costumes!

I watched it happen — and I watched people’s skin and health suffer for it.
Mine included.

Somewhere along the way, I fell down the rabbit hole of soil microbiology and regenerative agriculture — and everything clicked.

Healthy soil grows plants differently.
Those plants carry different chemistry.
And our bodies recognize that difference immediately.

Not intellectually.
Biologically.

I began to see what folk wisdom had always known:
plants don’t work in isolation — and neither do we.

Each plant carries a unique constellation of compounds.
Each prefers its own method of extraction.
Some want alcohol. Some want oil. Some want heat, time, patience, and microbes.

When treated properly, they move through the body like old friends — from skin to gut to liver — doing their quiet work without force.

That felt… magical.
But it was also deeply logical.

So I started growing, gathering, and experimenting.

I learned which herbs wanted to become tinctures.
Which wanted to be slow-infused into oils for skin.
Which belonged in teas that gently shift the internal terrain — strengthening the liver, discouraging parasites, and making it harder for pathogenic chaos to take hold.

And then something unexpected happened.

People started feeling better.
Not just their skin — their systems.

Most people are taught to move fast toward pharmaceuticals.
They’re told herbs are slow, weak, or ineffective.

But speed isn’t the same as wisdom.

Pharma often comes with side effects and unintended setbacks.
Herbs work differently — slower, smarter, and in conversation with the body instead of overriding it.

Gentle doesn’t mean powerless.
It means in harmony.

This is why I work with whole plants.
This is why intention matters.
This is why Herbal Incantation exists.

Because when soil, plants, microbes, and humans are allowed to dance together — the body remembers what to do.

Love & Plants

Lia Musco