Sacred Plant Medicine: Explorations in the Practice of Indigenous Herbalism

By: Stephen H. Buhner

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Synopsis: In Sacred Plant Medicine Stephen Buhner examines how indigenous peoples throughout the world learned the use of plant medicines. He explores the sacred dimension of plant and human interactions--a territory where humans experience communications from plants as expressions of Spirit. Indigenous peoples were clear, and Buhner's firsthand accounts bear this out, they did not learn the uses of plant medicines through trial and error but directly from the plants themselves. Sacred Plant Medicine develops a map of the territory of plant intelligence and the human interaction with it by focusing on the earliest and most basic human form of that contact between differing intelligences. For each healing plant described in the book, he presents medicinal uses, preparatory guidelines, and ceremonial elements such as prayers and medicine songs associated with the use of the plant. Each of us can communicate with the plants and become one with them.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 210 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781570980855
Publisher:: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Date of Addition:: 11/03/15
Copyrighted By:: Stephen Harrod Buhner
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: Yes
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Home and Garden, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Medicine
Submitted By:: kelly pierce
Proofread By:: Vivian Flores
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.