Bursting with interesting and beneficial information, this book guides the reader through the many uses of herbs in healing mind, body, and spirit. Herbalist Elisabeth Brooke explains where, when, and how to collect herbs; how to dry, store, and prepare them; and how to use them for physical, emotional, and ritual purposes. She also traces their mythological history, astrological significance, and main chemical components and offers recipes for food, drinks, and medicines.

A Woman's Book of Herbs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Brooke, Elisabeth

Women's Health

Womens Pr Ltd

This is an introduction to the use of herbs in a modern woman's daily life. In the first section the author takes a look at various illnesses which affect a woman, from common complaints to serious disease and also addresses the different stages of life from puberty to the menopause. The second section covers about 30 herbs and their different uses. The book emphasizes the political and emotional factors that relate to women's health and life stages and the empowering nature of herbalism. All the herbs mentioned in this book are widely available. By the author of "The Woman's Herbal".

Herbal Therapy for Women

Alternative Medicine

Thorsons Pub.

Women have always been healers -- from the priestess healers in the temples of Isis, to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval times, to the physicians, researchers, and alternative practitioners of today. This glorious book celebrates the history of women healers from earliest times to the present. It includes profiles of women healers from all traditions. Some are well known, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Baker Eddy. Others deserve to be more widely recognized, such as Trotula of Salerno, who wrote gynecological and obstetrical texts in thirteenth-century Italy, and Mama Lola, a respected mambo or healing priestess in the Haitian Voodoo tradition. Text and pictures detail the many contributions of women to the healing arts, from the founding of nursing orders and the tending of soldiers, to the establishment of public health hospitals, to contemporary applications of the ancient lore of herbal medicine and therapeutic touch.

Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers

Quest Books

Drawing on primary sources for her revisionist history, the author highlights important contributions of women healers from ancient times to the present.

Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives (Women's Studies/Healing)

Healing Arts Press

AN AWESOME BOOK! Elisabeth Brooke resurrects the European herbal and medical astrological traditions and offers them in this remarkable handbook. Feminism, history, medicine, astrology and women's mysteries.

An Astrological Herbal for Women

Crossing Pr

Using the latest research combined with traditional herb lore, this book sets out how to stay healthy and happy into old age and beyond In her latest book, established herbalist Elisabeth Brooke provides readers with a myriad of practical advice to remain healthy and well as they navigate the challenges of life.&nbsp; The book is divided into two parts. Part One looks at the fundamentals of staying healthy, which apply to any age, but are especially important as we grow older, and our bodies can become less resilient and the effects of a lifetime's habits may begin to show up in the body. These chapters cover; nourishment, rest, exercise, thinking, happiness, loneliness, fun, and finally death and dying. Part Two is the practical part of the book, giving practical advice on each of the topics outlined in the first half.&nbsp;This includes a herbal Materia Medica, which lists the herbs mentioned and gives some of the author's favourite recipes for herbal delights and natural Quick Fixes for a number of common conditions, and their remedies.

Ageing Gracefully: A Holistic Guide to Later Life

Aeon Books

Responding to the recent revival of interest in herbal medicine, Elisabeth Brooke explores the origins and history of the practice of herbalism and discusses its use in a modern context. This new book will be perfect for anyone interested in the use of herbal medicine, in particular those who have read Brooke's best-selling earlier works including Herbal Therapy for Women."The thesis of this book is the interconnectedness of all nature, human and plant kingdoms, and the underlying connection of a first principle which unites everything and from which and to which everything returns. We shall go on to discuss the four elements and humours and how the planets weave these differing energies through the vegetable and animal kingdoms which show us how Spirit is expressed in the plant, in the person and in the dis-ease." --from the author

Traditional Western Herbal Medicine: As Above So Below

This book is an irresistible, definitive guide to the magical practices of contemporary women. Beginning with a brief history of witchcraft, it explores a huge range of beliefs, festivals, skills, and lore, including: 
<ul>
<li>Goddesses, priestesses, and witches</li>
<li>Reincarnation, karma, magic, and power</li>
<li>The aura, the chakras, psychic awareness, astral traveling, pathworking, dreamwork, and healing</li>
<li>Covens, initiations, collectives, and lone witches</li>
<li>The circle, the altar, wands, robes, chalices, incenses, oils, and candles</li>
<li>The moon and the planets</li>
<li>Sabbats, esbats, solstices, equinoxes, Samhain, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas</li>
<li>Tarot, scrying, starcraft, and herbal lore</li>
</ul>
Gathering together all the disciplines of European witchcraft and providing rituals and spells for use in our lives, A Woman's Book of Shadows, first published in 1993, is a remarkable compendium of magical lore, psychic skills, and women's mysteries.

A Woman's Book of Shadows: A Celebration of Witchcraft

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

A Woman's Book of Herbs is an extensive guide to using herbs for healing the mind, body, and spirit. This book is bursting with definitive information on a broad range of herbs including where, when, and how to collect them and the best methods for drying, storing, and preparing them. Readers will also discover herbs' many physical, emotional, and ritual uses, their mythological history and astrological significance, and their main chemical components. Recipes for herbal food, drinks, and medicines are also provided.
Infused with the author's empowering holistic approach to healing and backed by her firm belief that women should have an understanding of and control over the causes of ill-health and the variety of healing processes, A Woman's Book of Herbs is a unique and indispensable work.
This is a reissue of the much-loved classic, first published in 1992.

Beginning with the ancient goddesses and the importance of legends, myths, and symbols, this book celebrates women in medicine from Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the present. Trotula, Hildegard of Bingen, Wendy Savage, and Elizabeth, Countess of Kent are among the many unique healers finally recognized for their work. Documenting each woman's practices, achievements, and struggles, here at last is the definitive history of women's invaluable contribution to healing. Informed by the author's understanding of the politics of medicine and fused with her appreciation of the powers of myth versus those of technology, this new reissue of the 1993 classic is an invaluable resource. Originally published by The Women's Press in 1993 (9780704343245).

Women Healers Through History: Revised and Expanded Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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A Woman's Book of Herbs

Herbal Therapy for Women

Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers

Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives (Women's Studies/Healing)

An Astrological Herbal for Women

Ageing Gracefully: A Holistic Guide to Later Life

Traditional Western Herbal Medicine: As Above So Below

A Woman's Book of Shadows: A Celebration of Witchcraft

A Woman's Book of Herbs

Women Healers Through History: Revised and Expanded Edition