Zusatztext In The Earthwise Herbal! Matthew Wood has revived the richness! depth! and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters! while at the same time endowing it with a new cosmopolitan! cross-cultural flavor that lifts it to a genuinely planetary level. Rudolph Ballentine! MD! author of Radical Healing Matthew Wood propounds with great clarity! wisdom! and his own experience the gifts the earth in its wisdom has given us in the form of amazing medicines for almost all our ills! whether of body! mind! emotion! personality! or constitution. Anne McIntyre! herbalist (NIMH) "Matthew Wood has put his over 25 years of experience as a practicing herbalist into the heart of this book! giving us all something worthy of study and reference! no doubt for generations to come. His understanding of the spirit of herbalism! along with his love of the craft! is contagiousI sincerely hope many people will catch a good dose of his knowledge!" dkMommySpot What [Matthew Wood] brings to herbalism is a first-hand sense of the old Western herbal knowledge with each plant steeped in its historic role. The American Herb Association Informationen zum Autor Matthew Wood Klappentext In this companion volume to The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants! Matthew Wood! an expert herbalist who has used medicinal herbs with tens of thousands of patients over a twenty-five-year career! provides detailed descriptions of New World (North American) herbs and their uses. Organized as a materia medica (names and descriptions of herbs/plants are listed alphabetically)! the book explains the use of the whole plant (not just "active ingredients) in the treatment of the whole person and describes symptoms and conditions that the plants have been successful in treatingfrom digestive ailments! headaches! and high blood pressure to asthma! skin rashes! and allergies! to name a few. Wood! who has systematically studied ancient and traditional herbal literature! takes a historical view and presents information in a thoughtful! engaging! nontechnical style. In addition! he provides remarkable case studies as well as insight into the "logic of each plantits current and past usage! pharmacological constituents! and other elements that together produce a comprehensive portrait of each herb. Leseprobe From "Herbalism and Holism" I have called this herbal earthwise to contrast it to other herbals reflecting the pharmacological approach. It is based on sources that the scientific approach ignores: historical uses, folk medicine, folk practitioners, the experience of actual herbalists, intuitive concepts of energy, plant properties, and medicine, daydreams, and dreams. It is, however, scientific in a broader sense of the word because it follows an organized and reasonably critical approach to understanding plant medicine. The Earthwise Herbal is organized around the concept that each plant has an innate intelligence or core essence, as the ancients would have said, binding together the disparate properties and uses into a meaningful and logical or intuitive whole. The compounds in the plant, its appearance, growth habit, ecological niche, and medicinal properties are united by this common personality, intelligence, or essence. This knowledge not only represents the inwardness of the thingas the Quakers would saybut it represents the whole that unites the parts. This approach is thus set upon a holistic foundation.Because the emphasis is placed on the inwardness of the herb, The Earthwise Herbal is more expressly concerned with the use of individual herbs. It describes the properties of individual herbs and does not address their interaction or formulation. It is not written in opposition to formula-making, but in an attempt to help clarify and describe the pr...

ldquo;In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same time endowing it with a new cosmopolitan, cross-cultural flavor that lifts it to a genuinely planetary level.”
—Rudolph Ballentine, MD, author of Radical Healing

“Matthew Wood propounds with great clarity, wisdom, and his own experience the gifts the earth in its wisdom has given us in the form of amazing medicines for almost all our ills, whether of body, mind, emotion, personality, or constitution.”
—Anne McIntyre, herbalist (NIMH)

"Matthew Wood has put his over 25 years of experience as a practicing herbalist into the heart of this book, giving us all something worthy of study and reference, no doubt for generations to come. His understanding of the spirit of herbalism, along with his love of the craft, is contagious—I sincerely hope many people will catch a good dose of his knowledge!"
—dkMommySpot

“What [Matthew Wood] brings to herbalism is a first-hand sense of the old Western herbal knowledge with each plant steeped in its historic role.”
—The American Herb Association

Autorentext

Matthew Wood

Klappentext

In this companion volume to The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants, Matthew Wood, an expert herbalist who has used medicinal herbs with tens of thousands of patients over a twenty-five-year career, provides detailed descriptions of New World (North American) herbs and their uses. Organized as a materia medica (names and descriptions of herbs/plants are listed alphabetically), the book explains the use of the whole plant (not just "active ingredients”) in the treatment of the whole person and describes symptoms and conditions that the plants have been successful in treating—from digestive ailments, headaches, and high blood pressure to asthma, skin rashes, and allergies, to name a few.

Wood, who has systematically studied ancient and traditional herbal literature, takes a historical view and presents information in a thoughtful, engaging, nontechnical style. In addition, he provides remarkable case studies as well as insight into the "logic” of each plant—its current and past usage, pharmacological constituents, and other elements that together produce a comprehensive portrait of each herb.

Zusammenfassung
In this companion volume to The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants, Matthew Wood, an expert herbalist who has used medicinal herbs with tens of thousands of patients over a twenty-five-year career, provides detailed descriptions of New World (North American) herbs and their uses. Organized as a materia medica (names and descriptions of herbs/plants are listed alphabetically), the book explains the use of the whole plant (not just “active ingredients”) in the treatment of the whole person and describes symptoms and conditions that the plants have been successful in treating—from digestive ailments, headaches, and high blood pressure to asthma, skin rashes, and allergies, to name a few.

Wood, who has systematically studied ancient and traditional herbal literature, takes a historical view and presents information in a thoughtful, engaging, nontechnical style. In addition, he provides remarkable case studies as well as insight into the “logic” of each plant—its current and past usage, pharmacological constituents, and other elements that together produce a comprehensive portrait of each herb.

Leseprobe
**From "Herbalism and Holism"**I have called this herbal “earthwise” to contrast it to other herbals reflecting the pharmacological approach. It is based on sources that the scientific approach ignores: historical uses, folk medicine, folk practitioners, the experience of actual herbalists, intuitive concepts of energy, plant properties, and medicine, daydreams, and dreams. It is, however, “scientific” in a broader sense of the word because it follows an organi…