Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
The ebook edition of this classic herbal by internationally renowned herbalist David Hoffman. Easy to use, the herbal is hugely popular with herbalists and laypeople worldwideThe Holistic Herbal covers everything you need to know about growing, gathering, preparing, using and taking herbal medicines to improve and maintain health.With simple b/w line drawn herb illustrations throughout, the book is extremely attractive and contains:-a simple introduction to health, well-being and how your body works.• a guide to specific health problems and concerns (you don’t need to be sick to take a herbal cure!) and ‘which herb’ for a range of conditions.• A–Z herbal, covering over 200 different medicinal herbs and plants.This section comprises the main part of the book and is full of detailed information about each herb.
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HOLISTIC HERBAL
A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
DAVID HOFFMANN
To Lolo, for now and always
Contents
Introduction to the Third Edition
A Herbal Medicine Chest for the Home
Prevention of Circulatory Disease
Herbs for the Circulatory System
Prevention of Respiratory Disease
Herbs for the Respiratory System
Patterns of Disease of the Respiratory System
Herbs for Ears, Nose, Throat and Eyes
Herbs for the Digestive System
Patterns of Dis-ease of the Nervous System
Internal Reactions to External Causes
The Muscular & Skeletal System
Herbs for the Muscular and Skeletal System
Patterns of Muscular and Skeletal Disease
Patterns of Disease in the Glandular System
Herbs for the Female Reproductive System
Patterns of Disease of the Female Reproductive System
Herbs for the Urinary System..
Patterns of Disease of the Urinary System
Herbs for Infections and Infestations
Psychological Factors and Cancer
Calendar
This is a beautiful and fascinating book, an enthralling gateway into a wonderful field. The beginner can understand and the expert really use it. David is to be congratulated on his achievement.
The Hermetic Wisdom laid down as first principle that the universe is Mind, an ocean of living Intelligence; and as second principle the Law of Correspondences—as above, so below; as in the greatest, so in the smallest; as in the macrocosm, so in the microcosm.
Holistic healing reveals the great truth. Thus reflexology can discover all imbalances in the bodily organism from the feet, iridology from the eye, and true phrenology from the conformation of the cranium. Every part contains the whole, as is so beautifully demonstrated by the shattered holographic plate. And now herbalism reveals all the secret gifts of nature for holistic healing.
Our minds are still overcoming centuries of conditioning to ‘apartness’ thinking. The holistic world view lifts beyond such separation. We learn to see Truth as a hovering crystalline structure of many facets. You pick up one glint, I another, and the separatist reason can too easily conclude that, since I know and can prove I’m right, you must be wrong. All the glints together make up the Truth and we are finding that true ‘conversation’ (a ‘turning-about together’) is an art of helping each other to see the wonder of the whole revealed in every part. This lifts it above intellectual discussion or that debased form of exchange called argument.
In holistic thinking we become eclectic and learn to draw our truth from many complementary sources. Thus herbalism opens up a wonderful field for natural healing and this beautiful book by David Hoffman will guide many into it, for it is an essential aspect of natural therapy.
In our age of drugs and chemicals, here is a path to safe treatment which respects the Oneness of Life. This book is delightfully illustrated and produced, and the Findhorn Press is to be congratulated. All who are drawn into our movement for regeneration will want to possess it.
George Trevelyan
Transformation is in the air. It is the keynote of all we see, do and hear. Our lives are being transformed from within and without, sometimes positively growing and other times painfully changing, but always in flux. The purpose of our lives and the direction of society are no longer what they were, as the basis of our collective reality and beliefs changes. It is a time of chaos, crisis and great opportunity. A fundamental change in perspective and context is occurring throughout society and as a result much has happened in the field of herbalism and holistic healing in the short time since the first edition of The New Holistic Herbal appeared.
Herbalism is based on relationship—relationship between plant and human, plant and planet, human and planet. Using herbs in the healing process means taking part in an ecological cycle. This offers us the opportunity consciously to be present in the living, vital world of which we are part; to invite wholeness and our world into our lives through awareness of the remedies being used. The herbs can link us into the broader context of planetary wholeness, so that whilst they are doing their physiological/medical job, we can do ours and build an awareness of the links and mutual relationships.
