Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine

Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine

Holly Bellebuono

Language: English

Pages: 304

ISBN: 1629145890

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


A celebration of the healing traditions that made yoga, acupuncture, and aromatherapy popular.

The recent trend toward holistic living has heightened our national fascination with herbal remedies and less conventional therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, aromatherapy, and ethnobotany. Now, this intimate and inspiring book opens up the world of herbal medicine to those interested in learning about the history of these techniques and approaches.

Women Healers of the World shares with readers an extraordinary variety of healing plants from around the world that have inspired today’s “alternative” medicine, as well as the stories, challenges, and triumphs of remarkable women healers from past and present—all of whom promote the use of medicinal herbs.

Through this book, herbalist and author Holly Bellebuono aims to educate readers about sixteen plant-based world healing traditions and thirty women who have practiced them. Bellebuono also explores the geography, history, and medical heritage of twenty countries where these traditions originated.

With thorough knowledge of the uses and effects of these healing traditions, readers can then move on to featured recipes for herbal remedies they can make in their home kitchens. Following Bellebuono’s instructions, readers will produce remedies such as soothing lip balms, wound pastes, face masks, arthritis oils, relaxing bath salts, and revitalizing teas.

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mountains, hoards of settlers moved in to claim the wealth. However, the lands were mostly Cherokee lands; in 1830, Georgia enacted the Indian Removal Act whereby it legally banished its Native American population (which had refused allegiance to Georgia’s government and operated its own written constitution). Over the next eight years, first the Choctaw left Georgia and South Carolina, then the Seminole, the Creek, and the Chicasaw. By 1837, 46,000 Native peoples had evacuated their homelands,

blossomless, Urged onward by Brhaspati, release us from our pain and grief; Release me from the curse’s plague and woe that comes from Varuna . . .” “All Plants that hear this speech, and those that have departed far away, Come all assembled and confer your healing power upon this Herb.”4 Taj Mahal, India GINGER Zingiber officinale This favorite among spices, ginger is a circulatory stimulant that warms the blood and is diaphoretic, bringing sweat to reduce high fevers. Old Europe’s wives

as possible. “What I try to do here is a pure Tibetan medicine,” she says. “I think that when we teach, it is important to teach it pure—the real knowledge. It is the real way we learned in Tibet—there are no shortcuts. And I do not put my own ideas in. I think when I am teaching, it is best to teach the correct thing.” When students become doctors, they will apply this knowledge for their patients and they can do what they think is best on a case-by-case basis, she says. “I try to work with

gates for selling, eating, schooling, and healing. The metropolis was modern and cutting edge even in the Middle Ages and, on top of its other attractions, Salerno boasted Europe’s famous Garden of Minerva, with more than three hundred species of edible and medicinal plants. The spectacular garden operated as the “Hortus sanitatus” for the Schola Medica Salernitana, the world-renowned School of Salerno. Near Salerno, the town of Velia had hosted a small school of medicine, but after the fall of

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