The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines

Description

Hailed as a “classic” by leading herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, this botanical
compendium provides a wide-ranging history of herbalism and useful guidance
for healing with herbs Matthew Wood is one of the United States’ most renowned
herbalists and the author of Seven Herbs: Plants as Healers, a watershed book
in teaching herbal healing as a part of total wellness. With The Book of
Herbal Wisdom, he continues and expands this study, creating a must-read guide
for anyone who works in the natural health field or is interested in self-
healing with herbs. Wood creates a vast and sweeping history of herbalism,
drawing on Western botanical knowledge, homeopathy, Traditional Chinese
medicine, and Native American shamanic botany. Detailing the history and use
of more than forty plants, he shows how each tradition views a plant, as well
as its use in cases drawn from his own herbal and homeopathic practice. An
initial section describes signatures, similar, and patterns in these
traditions, and elements, temperaments, and constitutions. Wood has two
objectives: to demonstrate how herbal medicines are agents of healing and
wisdom, and to give the reader a useful catalog of plants for medicinal uses.
His clinical observations of his patients bear the wry wisdom of the country
doctor; his love of plants is evident in lush botanical descriptions, which
show the connection between remedies—whether homeopathic, Chinese, or Native
American—and the plants from which they are derived. An introduction to
centuries of lore about healing from indigenous traditions, The Book of Herbal
Wisdom integrates and describes North American Indian medicine, homeopathy,
Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Western herbalism like no other contemporary
botanical compendium. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books; First Edition (September 15, 1997)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 580 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1556432321
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 23
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.71 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.01 x 1.13 x 9 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #115,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #62 in Ayurveda Medicine #92 in Naturopathy Medicine #247 in Herbal Remedies (Books)
• #62 in Ayurveda Medicine
• #92 in Naturopathy Medicine