J T Garrett
In this rare collection of the acquired herbal knowledge of Cherokee Elders, author J. T. Garrett presents the healing properties and medicinal applications of over 450 plants. Readers will learn how Native American healers utilise the gifts of nature for ceremonial purposes and to treat over 120 ailments, from the common cold to a bruised heart. The book presents the medicine of the Four Directions and the plants with which each direction is associated. From the East comes the knowledge of "heart medicine" - blood-building tonics and plants for vitality and detoxification. The medicine of the South focuses on the innocence of life and the energy of youthfulness. West medicine treats the internal aspects of the physical body to encourage strength and endurance, while North medicine offers a sense of freedom and connection to the stars and the greater Universal Circle. This resource also includes traditional teaching tales to offer insights from Cherokee cosmology into the origin of illness, how the animals found their medicine, and the naming of the plants.
288pp, 8.25x5.5 ... Paperback
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Alma R Hutchens
For more than 20 years this pioneering and encyclopedic guide to more than 200 medicinal plants used by the Indians of North America has served as a bible to herbalists throughout the world. Native American traditions are compared with traditional uses of the same plants among other cultures, particularly Russia and China. There is also information on homoeopathic usage.
424pp, 9x6, illus. ... Paperback
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Donna Stellhorn
For millennia, the 500-plus varieties of sage have been a part of personal, religious and healing practices in cultures as diverse as the Chinese, Roman and Native American. To smudge is to burn sage in a ritual manner to cleanse or clear space, objects or environments. Bring the benefits of this ancient knowledge into your life with this pocket-size booklet that covers making a smudge stick, shells and fans, smudge ceremonies and more.
Paperback
edited by J P Harpignies
Visionary plants have long served indigenous peoples and their shamans as enhancers of perception, thinking, and healing. These plants can also be important guides to the reality of the natural world and how we can live harmoniously in it. This work: presents the specific human-plant interconnection revealed by visionary plants; and explores the relevance of plant-induced visions and shamanic teachings to humanity's environmental crisis. It includes contributions from Terence McKenna, Andrew Weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Katsi Cook, John Mohawk, Kat Harrison, and others who present their understandings of the nature of psychoactive plants and their significant connection to humans. What they reveal is that these plants may help us access the profound intelligence in nature - the "mind of nature" - that we must learn to understand in order to survive our ecologically destructive way of life.
224pp, 9x6 ... ISBN 9781594771477 ... Paperback
Published price £12.99 -- You save £3.90 ... 30%
