Description
Book SynopsisA book to remind us of the intimate bond that has always existed between people and plants and encourages us to bring them back into our daily lives.
In some parts of the world, plant medicine is still taught at the kitchen table, by the cooking fire, or in the fields, passed down from parent to child and woven through the fabric of the culture. In many places it has been severely eroded, but it has not been lost. This book helps us reclaim and restore a hugely important part of our heritage: our plant medicine path.
Conversations with Plants reminds us of the intimate bond that has always existed between people and plants and encourages us to bring them back into our daily lives. It includes instructions on how to develop these connections by using essential oils, gardening and growing herbs, medicine making and gathering wild food. It is an invitation to step into your own relationship with plants - their stories and meanings - feel into their medicine and understand how to work with them by bringing your own medicine into the conversation.
It is for practitioners, students, and anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of the green world.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Setting some context
PART I: OUR GREEN ALLIES
CHAPTER ONE
Understanding plant anatomy, their parts and their medicine
CHAPTER TWO
Plants as alchemists (including organoleptic exercises)
CHAPTER THREE
Plant families and their medicine
CHAPTER FOUR
Wild gardening and a new paradigm of growing and harvesting
PART II: ENERGETICS, INTENTIONS AND MEDICINE
CHAPTER FIVE
Evolving energetics
CHAPTER SIX
Intentions in medicine making; the wild kitchen and pharmacy
PART III: THE HUMAN PLANT
CHAPTER SEVEN
Community, connection and boundaries
CHAPTER EIGHT
The lower cauldron physical survival of the individual and species (reproduction)
CHAPTER NINE
The middle cauldron the emotional being
CHAPTER TEN
The upper cauldron
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The cycles of life
PART IV: PLANT STORIES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
