Ashley Mountainstone (@BottleBell) / X

Ashley Mountainstone

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Ashley Mountainstone

@BottleBell

Girl of the Old Dreaming. Fine Artist, Master Herbalist, Eastern Healer (TCM), Shamanic Practitioner + Folk Healer | Anti hive-mind. Independent. Plainswoman.

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Joined July 2009

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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Jun 11
Mast cells have direct receptor sites for neuropeptides. Substance P, released from sensory nerve fibers, directly trigger mast cell degranulation - histamine, prostaglandins, cytokines - all of it pours out as a consequence of a nervous system that’s firing. These are downstream
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Nov 7, 2025
Highly recommend the below. This movement opens the fascia so well after about ten minutes that, if you aren’t used to opening your body up, you’ll finish and find other places signaling to be stretched out. This is how you take back your posture and fascia which, in turn, brings
Health & Nutrition Tips
@healthnutritipz
Nov 7, 2025
8 hours of rest in just 10 minutes...
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Nov 23, 2024
Replying to @acdmma_ and @Healyhack
Good! She deserved that win, my ex is Irish and an MMA fighter. It’s so well known in the Irish training gyms who he really is. So many in denial and so many not. Have been hearing about what he was up to for 8 years. This is FAR from his only victim.
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Oct 6, 2025
This is, without exception, my favorite new lymph brush. It’s softer than silk and designed to be used like a guasha tool on the face and neck only. A mini dry brush. It has drained my neck and sinus’ better than any stone guasha facial tool I’ve ever used. There are many, many
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Apr 4, 2025
Replying to @RoxyTall
I don’t think of it as bluntness. Sheer wit. Noone can hold a candle to the wit of Irish, except perhaps the Scottish. They need the sense of humor to survive the cold and lack of light. Truly believe this ✨
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Apr 25, 2024
Replying to @mettafied
Well, I’ll say this: Nature designed that and she never makes mistakes. That’s exactly how she’s built her eco system to work in your yard. I think it’s beautiful. What I might do is add to it. A beautiful tree in one corner and herbs or flowers in a garden in one section. That
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Dec 10, 2024
Replying to @idollkod @kodstrangeer and @kenklippenstein
Well, everything his manifesto states is sadly totally correct. He will have much support at trial by the general population.
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Oct 27, 2025
One of the easiest ways to interact with your vagus nerve / nervous system, and to stimulate the Parasympathetic to come back online, is to stick your tongue into your left cheek, inside your mouth. Hold for 10. Then stick it into the right cheek and hold for 10. I tend to roll
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Jun 22, 2024
As an herbalist, one thing I wish all humans knew that are interested in exploring them, is that the most common culinary and garden herbs — the ones you already know and have already heard of, became that close to we humans as plant allies because they are powerhouses. They
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Jul 7, 2025
Most people are unaware their calves are not just muscles, but a circulatory pump. They are called the “second heart” in TCM because they push the blood back up to the heart. Is important that we exercise this area and around this area, through daily movement and through
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Jul 10, 2025
Replying to @hell_line0
Heal your own attachment style so you become secure. That’s the way out.
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Dec 16, 2024
I cannot speak highly enough about Grapefruit and Pomegranate as medicines. They are truly and deservedly the fruits of the gods. This combo is so cleansing and so building. The body just loves them, absorbs them, heals from this lovely combo. Close seconds are figs and dates
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Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Nov 22, 2021
Replying to @JackPosobiec
Ashley Mountainstone
@BottleBell
Dec 1, 2024
Replying to @AmrananmAnRa and @dieworkwear
It is a lot for sure but as a woman who knits only handmade wool sweaters…, sweater materials themselves can cost around 100-200$ easily, just to have enough skeins to not run out of material. Then you have to consider how long it takes to sit and make by hand. Weeks to months
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