Sacred Plant Medicine: Explorations in the Practice of Indigenous Herbalism

Author Stephen Buhner turned to the medicinal use of plants after traditional medical science had failed him, and thus began a journey that has led to his current standing as one of the prominent practitioners of the sacred use of plants. Sacred Plant Medicine is the first book that looks at the historical use of plants by earth peoples and gives a detailed look at how the sacredness of plants is experienced in indigenous cultures. It addresses human's use of plants as medicine, and deals with plants as medicine as well as plants as sacred beings. Once, the two were inseparable.Color plates of nineteen species of plants, a short compendium of plants and their uses as sacred medicine, and an appendix that addresses ethical harvesting are also included.