🍃 Birch (Betula pendula)

The Tree of Light, Cleansing and Rebirth


🌍 Origin & history

The birch is one of the most graceful trees in the northern hemisphere. With its white, silvery bark and fluttering leaves, it has been a symbol of purification, renewal and rebirth .

In ancient Celtic and Slavic cultures, the birch was known as “the tree of the beginning” — the first sign of life after a long winter. In Siberian shamanic traditions, birch was used to cleanse the body energetically and to release “old energies”.

Her leaves, sap and bark have been part of European folk medicine for centuries:

  • Birch sap was tapped in early spring as an “elixir of life” to purify the blood.

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