| Description |
x, 325 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-317) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The Taste of Wild Water -- 2. The Two Wounds -- 3. Epistemological Conflict -- 4. The Loss of Biophilia and Biognosis -- 5. The Environmental Impacts of Technological Medicine -- 6. The End of Antibiotics -- 7. "Plants Are All Chemists" -- 8. Plants as Medicines for All Life on Earth -- 9. Herbelegy -- 10. The Lost Language of Plants -- 11. Living Biognosis: The Work of Carol McGrath, Sparrow, Rosemary Gladstar, John Seed. |
| Summary |
"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." |
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"Yet, as we foul air and water with toxic residues, we overlook the power of the planet's natural healers, stabilizers, and chemists - plants. Buhner sees plants as fully sentient beings, adjusting and fine-tuning to the environment just as they have done for the past 500 million years. Until recently, humans shared the language of plants, but increasingly we have lost our ability to communicate with the natural world. Buhner shows us a path back to our shamanic roots."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Materia medica, Vegetable.
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Medicinal plants.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Environmental aspects.
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Human ecology.
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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Materia medica, Vegetable. (OCoLC)fst01011725
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Medicinal plants. (OCoLC)fst01014866
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01060142
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| ISBN |
1890132888 (pbk.) |
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9781890132880 (pbk.) |
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