Author : Reader's Digest Association
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780895772213
The only book that brings together: an authoritative, stunningly illustrated field guide; a how-to book for identifying, collecting, and reserving plants; the fascinating story of the legends and lore of medicinal plants; and a do-it-yourself guide to planting and using herbs in cooking, cosmetics, and health. Illustrated.
Author : Christine Buckley
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0834842742
A fun, modern, and irreverent introduction to healing herbs, this field guide to feeling good includes more than 20 plant profiles. Here is an invitation to the wild world of healing plants growing right outside your door. Highlighting herbs from catnip and plantain to nettles and rosemary, this book provides the information you need to assemble an herbal arsenal for combatting any ailment—everything from brewing up a slick lube tea for sexual health to fashioning a simple summer band-aid from backyard “weeds” to crafting an herbal smoking blend to quiet a busy mind. This accessible guide covers questions like: What is plant medicine? What can I put in my mouth and where do I find it? Can I still go to my doctor? We’ve got you covered.
Author : John Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780198558545
This absorbing account of the evolution of modern medicine from its roots in folk medicine will entertain and inform both scientist and general reader alike. It explains the chemical basis of pharmacology, and provides a fascinating description of how the use and abuse of natural products in various societies throughout the ages has led to the development of many of the drugs we now take for granted.
Author : Cody Johnson
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1631594281
“Cody Johnson beautifully balances historical knowledge with cutting-edge science to produce a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read which paints a holistic picture of the risks and benefits of psychedelic use in modern day medicine and culture.” —Rick Doblin, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Magic Medicine explores the fascinating history of psychedelic substances and provides a contemporary update about their growing inclusion in modern medicine, science, and culture. Each chapter dives into the rich history of a single plant or compound and explores its therapeutic and spiritual uses in cultures near and far. Firsthand quotes allow glimmers of psychedelic light throughout. Learn all about: Classical psychedelics, including 2C-B, ayahuasca, LSD, and peyote The empathogenic psychedelics MDA and MDMA Dissociative psychedelics, including DXM, ketamine, and salvia Unique psychedelics, including cannabis, DiPT, and even fish and sea sponges The history of psychedelic plants and substances is full of colorful facts and stories, and intriguing questions. Did US Army Intelligence really use LSD as an enhanced military interrogation technique? How is DiPT able to make a familiar tune sound utterly foreign? Can MDMA (Ecstasy) help people overcome traumatic experiences? Many psychedelic plants and substances have a long history of being incorporated into various healing traditions—such as cannabis and opium in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Science is beginning to research what traditional cultures have told us for years: psychedelics have transformative healing properties. Anyone who has ever wondered about psychedelics—from complete neophytes to veteran trippers, seekers and sages to skeptics and scientists, therapists and patients to green thumbs and armchair anthropologists—will find something in this engrossing and beautifully designed book.
Author : Susan Gregg
Publisher : Fair Winds Press (MA)
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1592335837
DIVThe Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Plants, Revised and Expanded is the ultimate guide to using nature all around you to enhance your life and provide better health, prosperity, and inner peace./div
Author : Alice Thoms Vitale
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 1997-03-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
This delightfully original herbal presents over 110 exquisite, botanically precise illustrations of leaves, accompanied by engagingly-written information on the botany, culture, medicinal properties, history, literary significance, and folklore of each plant. 7x7". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Herbs
ISBN :
Author : James K. Kirkland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 082238258X
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
Author : Wayland D. Hand
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520306783
"Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see"; "Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives"; "Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away"--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote parts of the world but are examples of hundreds of items of magical medicine found in Professor Hand's remarkable collection of essays dealing with this neglected field in twentieth-century Europe and America. Fantasy and imagination still have free reign in people's lives, more than any of us will admit. In a time when science is preeminent, irrational thinking ca lay hold on the mid of man as much as in olden times. Folk medicine has expanded in recent years to include holistic medicine and other forms of alternative medicine, but little attention has been paid to magical medicine. Despite the benefits of medical science in an advance culture, the magical medicine of Europe and America has clung to an unusually rich and original body of magical lore that lies at the base of its folk medical thought. Ethnomedicine in the inner cities of America can be better understood by practitioners who know something about folk medicine and, especially, if they kno some of the basics of magical medicine. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Author : Rachael Cohen
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1784885630
Everyday Plant Magic is a modern guide to enhancing your life through the magical energy of nature, from choosing the right plant for your spiritual needs to understanding where best to place it and how to harness its power. Featuring 45 plant profiles, which will showcase each plant’s magical properties, from healing to stimulating and purifying to energising, learn how they can be used to cleanse a space of bad energy and help calm the mind and revitalise the body. Also discover how their placement in the home can enhance magical energies like prosperity, good health, success and relationships. Energy practices for invigorating the chakras with Nature's support, along with a highlight on crystal companions for harnessing additional magical energies, are also included. Whether you position a Snake Plant by the door to ward off bad energy, use Aloe Vera leaves to calm a burn or add a rose quartz to your Rose Plant to call in more love, this practical guide will equip you with all you need to hardness the transformative power of Nature and your plants.
