Traditional & Ancestral Plant Medicine: Volume II

Color VersionAuthored by 19 Valued Plant Healer Authors Including:Guido Masé • Heather Nic an Fhleisdeir • Merihelen Nuñez • Rivkah Asoulin • Kiva Rosethorn Hardin • Javier Alvare Caperochipi • Phyllis Light • Deatra Cohen & Adam Siegel • Thomas Easley • Todd Caldecott • Dara Saville • Dionne Jennings • Dana Hutchinson • Becky Beyer • Stephany Hoffelt • Adrie Rose • Christophe BernardWe’re pleased to introduce you to the inspiration and insights of Traditional & Ancestral Plant Medicine – Volume II, another book drawn from the past two decades of the esteemed Plant Healer Quarterly magazine.As important as our other books are with a focus on contemporary practices, research and the latest conclusions and discoveries, so too can our healing work benefit from a deepened and nuanced understanding of the ancestral, historic and traditional systems and approaches of the herbal and natural health practitioners who preceded us and made our goodly informed work possible. Here in Volume Two our authors explore and bring to light a sampling of traditions from around the world, including historic Physiomedicalism and dosage protocols, women’s sacred household medicine, Hispanic America and Curanderismo, the rural Southern U.S. and Appalachia, ancient Israel, Italia, Croatia, Ukraine and more. As always, we bow to our incredible contributors, Plant Healer Quarterly authors who so deftly integrate their personal cultural ancestry, backgrounds, experiences and feelings into their stories of the folks and the ways that preceded them. They make crystal clear why this history and knowledge remains so very important to us now, informing and fueling our own ever evolving healer’s practice and caring missions.If you find yourself moved and your interests stirred, you may want to also study Volume One of this series, with its detailed looks at some of the traditions of Native America, Medieval and Classical Europe, the Celtic isles, and the United States of the 18th and 19th Centuries, illuminating the medicinal plants and methodologies used and some of the people who advanced our vital work from Hildegard von Bingen to Samuel Thomson and the little known black herbalist slave Nell, and the earthy and venerable Wise Woman tradition that continues thriving and assisting us to this very day.Whatever your ancestry, cultural affiliation or healing aims, Traditional & Ancestral Plant Medicine exists to assist you on your personal path, helping to root you to the land and the people and the hopes of our wise herbal ally predecessors. Learn, utilize, and enjoy…. Read more