Lost Language of Plants The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth

Name: Lost Language of Plants The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
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ISBN: 9781890132880

ISBN-10: 1890132888

ISBN-13: 9781890132880

Edition: 2002

Authors: Stephen Harrod Buhner, Stephen Buhner

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This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring." Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It consists of three parts: 1. A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to the environment posed by pharmaceuticals and other synthetic substances that people use in connection with health care and personal body care. 2. A new look at Gaia Theory, including an explanation that plants are the original chemistries of Gaia and those phytochemistries are the fundamental communications…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Stephen Harrod Buhner is the author of Herbal Antibiotics now in its second edition and 17 other works including Herbs for Hepatitis C and the Liver, Sacred Plant Medicine, The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Ensouling Language. He travels and speaks internationally on herbal medicine, emerging diseases, complex interrelationships in ecosystems, Gaian dynamics, and musical/sound patterns in plant and ecosystem functioning. He is a tireless advocate for the citizen scientist, the amateur naturalist, and community herbalists everywhere. He lives in New Mexico.



A Note to the Reader


Acknowledgments



The Taste of Wild Water



The Two Wounds



Epistemological Conflict



The Loss of Biophilia and Biognosis



The Environmental Impacts of Technological Medicine



The End of Antibiotics



"Plants Are All Chemists"



Plants as Medicines for All Life on Earth



Herbelegy



The Lost Language of Plants



Living Biognosis: The Work of Carol McGrath, Sparrow, Rosemary Gladstar, John Seed


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Resources


Index