The Integrative Herbalist: Earth, Alchemy, and Embodied Plant Medicine - Couverture souple

Shelburne, Dr. Stephanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1968683992 ISBN 13 : 9781968683993

Editeur : Three Pools Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

This book is organized as a journey - an alchemical passage that mirrors both the traditional apprenticeship and the stages of the great work itself. You will begin with the foundations: the relationship with plants, the language of energetics, the primal skills of preparation. This is the prima materia - the raw material from which everything else will be refined. Then you will move through the wheel of the year with its seasonal wisdoms, through the lunar rhythms that pattern plant and body alike - learning to work with elemental time, with the forces that govern growth and rest, accumulation and release. Finally, you will enter the alchemist's laboratory, learning to create formulas from the meeting of plant intelligence with human need, stepping into your identity as one who transforms.

A word about what this book is not. It is not a comprehensive materia medica - there are excellent ones already, and the best one is the one you will build yourself from your own experience. It is not a medical text or a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment. It is not, in fact, the final word on anything; rather it is an invitation into ongoing relationship with plants, with bodies, with the mystery of healing itself. Consider it a doorway rather than a destination.

Dr. Stephanie Shelburne writes as someone who believes that the world needs more people who know plants - not just academically, but relationally. People who can make medicine, who can read bodies, who can tend the sick with wisdom and humility. People who remember that humans and plants have been in partnership since the beginning, and who are willing to continue that partnership into whatever future we are creating together. If you are called to be such a person, this book is for you.

The plants are waiting. They have been waiting a long time. Perhaps they have been waiting for you.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Three Pools Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1968683992
• ISBN 13: 9781968683993
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 178
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• Personne responsable: non disponible