Loren Cruden

Medicine Grove (eBook, ePUB)

A Shamanic Herbal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Medicine Grove is a comprehensive herbal, with listings for every common herb and many wild plants of North America. It includes descriptions of the part of the plant used, notes on preparation, lists of symptoms alleviated by the herb, and common effects. But Medicine Grove goes further, with chapters on gathering and growing wild herbs, using herbs in shamanic ceremonies or as plant allies in the wilderness, and birth, death, and dreaming herbs. Cruden combines her own first-hand experiences with a profound knowledge of indigenous traditions, enabling the reader to bring herbal lore into his or her own practice. She explains which herbs are best for seasonal ceremonies, smudging, and making offerings, and tells how to purify a sacred space. She covers topics such as vision quests, consciousness-altering, and the special connections between certain herbs and totem animals.

Medicine Grove brings the concept of an herbal into sacred territory, offering guidelines for incorporating herbs into one's spiritual life, based on the author's lifetime of work with Native American practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620550373
• Artikelnr.: 37941278

Autorenporträt

Loren Cruden (19522022), midwife and herbal healer, lived on a mountain in Washington State in a house that she and her son built. Following spiritual studies in Europe, Asia, and Africa, her six years of work with Lewis Sawaquat, a Potawatomie pipe carrier, deepened her engagement with the spirituality that is native to the land. Respectful of the integrity of Native American ways, she drew carefully on those and other Earth-oriented traditions to create an eclectic yet authentic spiritual practice that relied on a direct experience of the interrelatedness of all life. She is the author of Love Is Green: An Herbal for Parents, The Living Earth Tarot Deck, The Spirit of Place, Compass of the Heart, and Medicine Grove.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Shamanic Herbalism
1. Gathering and Growing Herbs
2. Preparing Medicinal Remedies
3. Healing with Herbs
4. Plant Allies
5. Offering Herbs
6. Smudge Herbs
7. Maintenance Herbs
8. Ceremonial Herbs
9. Smoking Herbs and Use of Psychotropic Plants
10. Birth, Death, and Dreaming Herbs
11. Trees
Part 2: Materia Medica
Appendices
Appendix 1: General Tips for Growing Common Garden Herbs
Appendix 2: Forms for Medicinal Application of Herbs
Appendix 3: Plant Associations Within the Web of Life
Appendix 4: Herb Allies for Specific Aspects of Well-being
Appendix 5: Herbs Used in Ceremony
Suggested Reading
Sources of Supply
Plant Index
General Index