Planting the Future: Saving Our Medicinal Herbs
Rosemary Gladstar
Language: English
Pages: 328
ISBN: 0892818948
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Voted one of the Top 10 books in 2000 by the Vermont Book Publishers Association.
A collective endeavor by United Plant Savers, featuring America's most respected and well-known herbalists.
Contributors include Don Babineau, Tim Blakley, Mark Blumenthal, Jane Bothwell, Stephen Harrod Buhner, David Bunting, Richo Cech, Tane Datta, Shatoiya and Rick de la Tour, Ryan Drum, Doug Elliott, Steven Foster, Cascade Anderson Geller, Kate Gilday, Rosemary Gladstar, James Green, Pamela Hirsch, Christopher Hobbs, Sara Katz, Kathi Keville, Robyn Klein, Richard Liebmann, Brigitte Mars, Pam Montgomery, Nancy and Michael Phillips, Janice J. Schofield, Joanne Marie Snow, Deb Soule, Paul Strauss, Gregory L. Tilford, Krista Thie, Susun S. Weed, David Winston, Martin Wall, Matthew Wood.
While the renaissance in the U.S. botanical market is positive in many respects, medicinal plant populations are suffering from loss of habitat and overharvesting, and many bestselling herbs are now at risk including echinacea, American ginseng, goldenseal, Hawaiian wild kava, and wild yam. The authors share their extensive experience with using and growing thirty-three of these popular herbs and include suggestions for creating your own private herbal sanctuary--whether a city balcony, suburban backyard, or rural retreat. Full-color photographs will inspire experienced and novice herb users alike to protect and cultivate these remarkable healing plants. Readers will also find out how to use herbal analogues for at-risk plants--other medicinal herbs that provide the same benefits and exist in plentiful amounts--and learn ways to make their herbal purchases a vote for sustainability. Planting the Future shows us how we can participate in the land stewardship, habitat protection, and eco-friendly consumption that will ensure an abundant, renewable supply of medicinal plants for future generations.
All author royalties will be used for replanting native medicinal herbs on a 370-acre botanical sanctuary in Ohio.
is with avid affection and deep appreciation that I applaud the magnificent manifestation we call Venus’s-flytrap, along with all other species of carnivorous plants. In addition, I state forthrightly, that it is my agenda in this chapter to inspire its readers to contribute passionately to the well-being of these rare and precious plant allies. It is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the one and only Dionaea, the beautiful, the sensual, Venus’s-flytrap. BOTANICAL FEATURES The
well. We have mentioned it to people trying to transition off tobacco cigarettes. Not wanting to offer something we haven’t tried ourselves, we decided to roll one up and take a few tokes. Neither of us is a cigarette smoker but from recollections of our youthful attempts to be “cool” we can tell you that the yerba santa wasn’t as harsh as tobacco. The smoke has a sweet, minty flavor. It did make both of us feel a little dizzy and out of it, very much as our pubescent tobacco experiences left us.
Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West. 2. Inouye, “Variation in generation time in Frasera speciosa.” 3. O’Callaghan, “Reproductive costs in Erythronium grandiflorum.” 4. Bierzychudek, “The demography of jack-in-the-pulpit.” 5. Cochran and Ellner, “Age-based life history parameters for stage-structured populations.” 6. Mitton and Grant, “Genetic variation and the natural history of quaking aspen.” 7. Mabry, “Creosote bush”; Vasek, “Creosote bush: long-lived clones.” 8. Bierzychudek,
cross-pollinate any of them.13 Herbalists and wildcrafters have not traditionally considered issues of reproductive cost, stage-structured models, and life demographics. This is the territory of academia, with unfamiliar technological terms and rather daunting mathematical equations. But we must bravely delve into these issues if we are to discover facts crucial to the continuance of our wild medicinal herbs. ESTIMATING AGES FOR HERBS Between 1995 and 1998 some seven to ten thousand pounds
system as a whole into a state of relative balance, relieving local congestion and generalizing tensions. Many chiropractors feel that in a significant percentage of high blood pressure cases, the problem lies in cerebral congestion. Case histories in my books Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers (1986) and The Book of Herbal Wisdom (1997) illustrate most of these uses. Temple Hoyne, Clinical Therapeutics (1879-1880), gives a good selection of case histories from homeopathic literature. A