Traditional & Ancestral Plant Medicine: Volume I

Color VersionAuthored by 15 Plant Healer Authors Including:Atava Garcia Swiecicki • Askîy Maskihkîwiskwêw • Heather Nic an Fhleisdeir • Sean Padraig O’Donghue • Virginia Adi • Amber Hill & Milla Prince • Kiva Rose • Phyllis Light • Rachel Lord • Dara Saville • Sophie Fredrickson • Dani Otteson • Stephany Hoffelt • Jon KeyesWe’re pleased to introduce you to the inspiration and insights of Traditional & Ancestral Plant Medicine – Volume I, 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 One our authors explore and bring to light a sampling of traditions from around the world, including from 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. Dip into the world view of the Irish Bean Feasa, ancient herbal astrology, and the earthy and venerable Wise Woman tradition that continues thriving and assisting us to this very day.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 Two of this series, with its detailed looks at the herbal traditions of 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.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