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Irma Vocht SDS Hom

Boab – (Adansonia Gibbosa (gregorii))

Boab or its African counterpart Baobab (Adansonia Digitata) is a huge tree that can live over 1000 years. It can obtain a girth of up to 25 metres but does generally not grow higher than 15 metres.

The only thing that grows around this tree in a circular pattern is its offspring and somehow it doesn’t allow anything else to grow around it. Frequently a number of smaller Boabs can merge and form into one tree.

Boab Prison Tree, Derby. (Kimberleys, Western Australia)

There are stories about African women giving birth in this tree, (the old trees are hollow), they enter before labour starts and come out some time after the birth. In some parts of Australia it is tradition to give an aboriginal woman in labour Boab flowers if the tree is in flowering season. She would then go off by herself to have the baby and deliver it in a hole in the ground lined with the Boab flowers, so that the first contact of the baby is with these flowers.

The Doctrine of signatures (please refer to previous article ‘fear of living’ for explanation) are quite amazing. If these trees were a human family, one could imagine the strong family ties that are in place; a tight-knit family that doesn’t allow any changes from tradition, nor allows family members to stray away. The ancient matriarch or patriarch is watching close by over the shoulder of the siblings.

This remedy is useful to help cutting the ancestral ties that holds one back. To clear dysfunctional, limiting, emotional and mental beliefs that are carried on from generation onto generation. The phrase ‘I am just like my mother/father/ grandparent’ or ‘I have this same habit just like…’ shows that these ties are in place and that you might have to look at making a change, for these habits are not you, but learned attitudes that actually hold you back. Don’t copy your parents mistakes by being ignorant. This remedy allows you to take a fresh look at your parents or grandparents and objectively see their traits, thus allowing you to cut those family ties and behavioural patterns. Do you keep repeating the same mistakes as one of your elders? Did your mum get pregnant at 16 and so did you? Do you hold resentment and anger just like the all the rest of your relatives? Just think of the worst aspects of your parents and if you have some of these traits, you will benefit from this flower essence. It is extremely difficult to escape these handed down traits and negative patterns, as when we grew up, we adopted our parents’ character and habits as they were our role-models. Your parents probably did the same ‘adopting’ from their parents.

All issues like these will respond to Boab Essence. It is not surprising that African tribes or aborigines like their baby to be in touch with this tree as it will give them a head start in life by cutting inherent ties and therefore setting them free with just their own personality to start life of with.

The trunks of the older trees are hollow and hold vast quantities of water. Water relates to emotions and therefore this remedy can access deeply stored away (negative) emotional patterns, particularly if one is focussing on a specific issue, Boab will help to release it.

Large baobab trees with hollow stems have been used for centuries for various purposes including houses, prisons, pubs, storage barns, and even as bus stops!