The lost language of plants : the ecological importance of plant medicines to life on earth

Book 2002

"Enraged, Energized, Exultant. You won't know how to feel after reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's The Lost Language of Plants. This is a devastating expose about how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us. We are ingesting Prozac, Premarin, and antibiotics whether we want to or not. Yet, as we foul air and water with toxic residues, we overlook the power of the planet's natural heale...

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Human ecology

Materia medica, Vegetable

Medicinal plants

Pharmaceutical industry Environmental aspects

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ISBN:

9781890132880

Description:

x, 325 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Ecological importance of plant medicines to life on earth

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-317) and index

Contents:

Taste of Wild Water
Two Wounds
Epistemological Conflict
Loss of Biophilia and Biognosis
Environmental Impacts of Technological Medicine
End of Antibiotics
"Plants Are All Chemists"
Plants as Medicines for All Life on Earth
Herbelegy
Lost Language of Plants
Living Biognosis: The Work of Carol McGrath, Sparrow, Rosemary Gladstar, John Seed

LCCN:

2001053868

Control Number:

3266055

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