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A hunting for the Healing Promise of Plant Medicines
Ann Armbrecht
Paperback
$ 24.95
From tulsi to turmeric , echinacea to elderberry , medicinal herbs are big business — but do they deliver on their healing promise to those who consume them , those who provide them , and to the natural world?“An eye - untier . . . . [ Armbrecht ] challenges ideas of what medicine can be and how occupation practices can crooked , and expand , our notions of plant life - establish healing . ”—The Boston Globe“[This ] is one of the most authoritative and readable books on the subject of herbs available today . Ann ’s story of her journeying and the awe-inspiring message her book take affect me to tears . . . . Thank you , Ann , for listen to the plant as deeply as you have , for pointing the way forward , and for experience the courage to head us there . ”—Rosemary Gladstar , author ofRosemary Gladstar ’s Medicinal Herbs
This is the first book to search the interconnected web of the ball-shaped herb industriousness and an invaluable imagination for witting consumers who desire to better realise the societal and environmental impacts of the products they buy .
cheer by her travels , Ann founded the Sustainable Herbs Initiative ( SHI ) , which is devoted to motivating modification in the herbal products industry . In a novel epilog for the softback variant , the author describes how SHI ’s Learning Lab and Learning Journeys are bringing together stakeholders from herbal mathematical product company to research how they might collaboratively work to address the problems of poverty , biodiversity loss , and the climate crisis .
Because , as Ann writes , “ Herbal medicament is about creating health , resilience . It is about wholeness . From that , a vast manufacture has uprise . . . an diligence that I key too often disregard the social , environmental , economic and spectral causes of disease in the world . And yet , we ca n’t be well until and unless the water we pledge , the zephyr we breathe , and the soil in which our food is uprise is well . What does it entail to be in the business of wellness in a cosmos that is not well?”“Armbrecht masterfully manages the challenge and complexity of her source textile . . . [ She ] is a spirited storyteller . . . [ and ] presents all this with the skill of an anthropologist and the tenderness of an herbalist . ”—Journal of the American Herbalists Guild“For those who lovedBraiding Sweetgrass , this leger is a perfect opportunity to go deeper into understanding the complex and co - evolutionary journey of plants and masses . ”—Angela McElwee , former president and CEO of Gaia Herbs
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