Wolf-Dieter Storl

The Heart and Its Healing Plants

Traditional Herbal Remedies and Modern Heart Conditions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ethnobotanical look at ancient heart beliefs, heart-strengthening herbs, and folk remedies for cardiovascular diseases

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781644118382
• ISBN-10: 1644118386
• Artikelnr.: 67744401

Autorenporträt

Wolf D. Storl, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has taught at Kent State University as well as in Vienna, Berne, and Benares. He is coauthor of Witchcraft Medicine and author of more than 30 books on indigenous culture and ethnobotany in German and several in English. He lives in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction The Heart of the Matter
1 The Heart—Just a Pump?
Heart Remedies of Indigenous Peoples
Heart Ailments in Old European Traditions of Folk Medicine
A Heart Full of Straw ◆ A Worm in the Heart ◆ Nightmares (Demons of the
Night) ◆ Nervous Heart ◆ Heart-Stroke, Elf-Stroke
Healing Incantations and Heart Plants
Heart Diseases in Monastic Medicine
Cardiac Remedies in Monastery Gardens
2 The Heart as the Abode of the Soul and an Organ of Perception
Most Definitely More Than Just a Pump
The Heart as the Abode of the Soul ◆ The Language of the Heart Heart
Transplants and Cyborg Hearts
The Heart Remembers ◆ Confused Souls ◆ Artificial Hearts and
Xenotransplants ◆ Asuras
Diabolos
The Microcosmic Sun
3 The Heart as the Source of Love and Vitality
The Heart and Eternal love
The Book of Eternity ◆ Cupid’s Arrows ◆ The Love Darts of Kama ◆ St.
Valentine’s Day ◆ The Classic Heart Shape ◆ Bewitchment
Spiritus Vitalis—The Heart as the Principle of Life
Vampirism ◆ Harmful Spells, or Black Magic ◆ How Dead Is “Brain-Dead”?
The Heart as the Abode of the Gods
Hanuman’s Heart ◆ The Dance of the Universe Takes Place in the Heart
4 What Makes the Heart Sick?
Answer 1: There Have Always Been Heart Diseases—They Were Just Not
Recognized as Such
Answer 2: There Is an Increase in These Diseases Due to Longer Life
Expectancy
Answer 3: Denatured Lifestyle
Low-Fat Diets ◆ Eliminating Tobacco, Coffee, and Alcohol ◆ Physical
Activity ◆ Reduction of Electrosmog ◆ Can We Live by These Rules?
5 The Heart on the Grindstone
Cultural Factors: Time Perception
In Harmony with Cosmic Rhythms ◆ The Time Machine
Mills and Chronometers
Clockworks ◆ Millwheels ◆ Inquisition of Witches ◆ Can You Feel How Strong
Your Heart Is?
6 Traditional Heart Plants
Alpine Lovage (Ligusticum mutellina) ◆ Bear Leek (Allium ursinum) ◆
Bearwort (Meum athamanticum) ◆ Blue Fragrant Violet (Viola odorata) ◆ Bog
Star (Parnassia palustris) ◆ Borage (Borago officinalis) ◆ Chamomile (
Matricaria chamomilla) ◆ Daisy (Bellis perennis) ◆ Hedge Woundwort (
Stachys sylvatica) ◆ Key Flower (Primula veris, P. officinalis) ◆ Lemon
Balm (Melissa officinalis) ◆ Linden Tree (Tilia cordata, T. platyphyllos) ◆
Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum, Carduus marianus) ◆ Mullein (Verbascum
thapsus) ◆ Oregano (Origanum vulgare) ◆ Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) ◆ Rose (
Rosa spp.) ◆ Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) ◆ Speedwell (Veronica officinalis
) ◆ St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) ◆ Storksbill (Geranium
robertianum) ◆ Strawberry, Wild (Fragaria vesca) ◆ Valerian (Valeriana
officinalis) ◆ Vervain (Verbena officinalis) ◆ Woodruff (Asperula odorata,
Galium odoratum)
7 Modern Heart Plants
Heart Plants with Cardiac Glycosides
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) ◆ Hellebore (Helleborus niger, H. viridis, H.
foetidus) ◆ Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) ◆ Oleander (Nerium
oleander) ◆ Queen of the Night (Selenicereus grandiflorus) ◆ Spring
Pheasant’s Eye (Adonis vernalis) ◆ Squill (Scilla maritima, Urginea
maritima) ◆ Wallflower (Erysimum cheiri)
Heart Plants with Alkaloids and Other Active Components
Garlic (Allium sativum) ◆ Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) ◆ Mistletoe (Viscum
album) ◆ Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) ◆ Mountain Arnica (Arnica montana)
◆ Periwinkle (Vinca minor) ◆ Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly
Sarothamnus scoparius)
Universal Cardiac Phytotherapeutics 263 Arjun Tree (Terminalia arjuna) ◆
Coffee (Coffea arabica) ◆ Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) ◆ Indian Snakeroot (
Rauvolfia serpentina) ◆ Jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) ◆ Poison Rope (
Strophanthus spp.) ◆ Yellow Oleander (Thevetia peruviana) References
Photo Credits
Index
About the Author