The gift of healing herbs : plant medicines and home remedies for a vibrantly healthy life 2014

This guide combines empowering information, engaging stories, more than 180 easy-to-follow recipes, and meditations and rituals of natural herbal medicines. In this book the author, an herbalist, offers readers who want to take charge of their health an immersion into a myriad ways to use plant-based remedies to care for themselves and others on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Informed by the wisdom that physical and spiritual healing are inextricably intertwined, this book explores herbology as the "people's medicine", freely available to all, and as a powerful yet gentle way to heal body, mind, heart and soul. The book is divided into three parts: the first part examines health and the causes of illness; the second part comprises a reference of all the physical systems of the body and the common and not-so-common herbs for tonifying them; and the third part contains recipes for teas, brews, and instructions for incorporating herbs into our daily lives. The hundreds of recipes for herbal preparations in this book, accompanied by prayers, meditations, and rituals, offer spiritual and physical insights into the relationship between our body systems and the elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, thus helping the reader explore and experience the interconnection of all things in the web of life. With personal stories, case histories, and elements of personal memoir, it is equal parts inspiration and instruction drawn from the author's life and decades spent teaching and practicing herbal medicine, and is focused keenly on the spiritual aspects of healing as revealed through personal story. The author explores how one's personal story turns into one's embodied physicality, specific health challenges, and ultimately reveals one's unique path of healing. This book guides and inspires readers to explore herbal remedies and home recipes for health and encourages readers to discover the personal, symbolic story that lies underneath manifestations of illness. -- Provided by publisher. Read more... Content: What is healing? -- The herbs and your body systems -- Everyting is medicine -- Additional remedies, tips, and thoughts on healing. Abstract: This guide combines empowering information, engaging stories, more than 180 easy-to-follow recipes, and meditations and rituals of natural herbal medicines. In this book the author, an herbalist, offers readers who want to take charge of their health an immersion into a myriad ways to use plant-based remedies to care for themselves and others on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Informed by the wisdom that physical and spiritual healing are inextricably intertwined, this book explores herbology as the "people's medicine", freely available to all, and as a powerful yet gentle way to heal body, mind, heart and soul. The book is divided into three parts: the first part examines health and the causes of illness; the second part comprises a reference of all the physical systems of the body and the common and not-so-common herbs for tonifying them; and the third part contains recipes for teas, brews, and instructions for incorporating herbs into our daily lives. The hundreds of recipes for herbal preparations in this book, accompanied by prayers, meditations, and rituals, offer spiritual and physical insights into the relationship between our body systems and the elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, thus helping the reader explore and experience the interconnection of all things in the web of life. With personal stories, case histories, and elements of personal memoir, it is equal parts inspiration and instruction drawn from the author's life and decades spent teaching and practicing herbal medicine, and is focused keenly on the spiritual aspects of healing as revealed through personal story. The author explores how one's personal story turns into one's embodied physicality, specific health challenges, and ultimately reveals one's unique path of healing. This book guides and inspires readers to explore herbal remedies and home recipes for health and encourages readers to discover the personal, symbolic story that lies underneath manifestations of illness. -- Provided by publisher

The gift of healing herbs : plant medicines and home remedies for a vibrantly healthy life