Secret Medicines from Your Garden: Plants for Healing, Spirituality & Magic

Secret Medicines from Your Garden: Plants for Healing, Spirituality & Magicby Ellen Evert Hopman.

Mind-blowing! Hopman has found a way to pack a veritable treasure trove of herbal lore into a clear, precise and engaging volume. The contents are organized beautifully, starting with a primer on wildcrafting and the “doctrine of signatures” while following with a season-by-season guide to harvesting and utilizing nature’s potent healing energies. The first six chapters alone are worth the price of admission. The following ten will take one’s knowledge of natural medicines, both historical and modern, to dizzying heights. Wildcrafting, wortcunning, plant signatures, recipes by the dozen, Native American Animal Medicines, tinctures, poultices, formula theories as well as easy-to-read charts and glossaries make this book very difficult to put down for long. In addition, 96 gorgeous colored plates help you safely identify many of the more commonly used herbs. A wonderful addition to the library of any naturalist, herbalist, Witch or alchemist.