Jesse Hardin

2017 Plant Healer Compendium Jesse Hardin

"Plant Healer is the only publication I've seen in my long career that captures the wild diversity of herbalism in North America." -Paul Bergner "Plant Healer is the most attractive journal I have ever had the pleasure to view." -David Winston The Plant Healer Compendium is a collection of Plant Healer Magazine's 2017 articles, 445 pages by 30 authors, selected from the year's over 1200 total pages tailored to the herbalist student and experienced practitioner. They represent over 20 columns and departments, covering everything from history and plant lore to materia medica, medicine making, and clinical skills. As this Compendium so well demonstrates, its authors are among the deepest thinking teachers, healers, conservationists, growers, and artists, and visionaries of our time. Sections on herbal traditions contribute to our evolving story, radical herbalism and diversity address issues vital to the survival of folk herbalism, and topics like constitutions, actions, cultivation, and botany, keep the project rooted in practical tools and usable techniques. Here is an opportunity to be entertained and enriched, while learning more about healing not only our bodies and spirits, but our culture and the land. For more information about Plant Healer, see www. PlantHealerMagazine.com Table of Contents Jesse Wolf Hardin: HerbKin: Roles, Labels, & What We Really Do Mathew Wood: The History, Growth, & Resurgence of Herbalism Paul Bergner: Questioning Our Teachers Jesse Wolf Hardin: The Portal Guido Masé Stories of The Silvani: Plant Spirits of The Dolomites Dara Saville: Saxifrage & Orchid Marija Helt: Plant & Fungi Friends in The San Juan Mountains Peter McCoy; The Hunt For Medicinal Mushrooms Sarah Baldwin: Legal Plants For Enhancing Consciousness Sarah Anne Lawless; Solanaceae: A Monograph of Nightshade Medicine Angela Justis: Made by a Child's Hands: Herbal Gift Giving Shana Lipner Grover: Brassicaceae Phyllis Light: Herbs For Men's Health Julie James: Herbs For Abortion & Miscarriage Care Wendy Hounsel: Cervical Dysplasia & Abnormal Pap Smears Jim McDonald: Anti-Microbials Thomas Easley: The Gut - Part II: Addressing The Stress Response Susun S Weed: Harvesting Sustainably: Parts I-III Wendy "Butter" Petty: Adapting Recipes For Wild Foods Ryn Midura: Caffeine Herbs & Alternatives Sean Donahue: Relaxing Tension: Letting Vitality Flow Shana Lipner Grover: The Lamiaceae Family Virginia Adi: Olfaction For The Herbalist Angela Justis: Children's Sleepy-Time Self Care Katherine MacKinnon: Seed to Seed Cultivation Matthew Wood: Treating Kidney Problems: Shana Lipner Grover: Cactaceae: Gifts of The Desert Marija Helt: Amanita Muscaria: The Flying Mushroom Ilana Goldowitz Jimenez: Autumn Crocus, Colchicine & The FDA Sean Donahue: Hawthorn: The Blessing of a Tree's Curse Nick Walker: Liberating Ourselves From The Pathology Paradigm Phyllis Light: The Pursuit of Happiness & Well-Being Dave Meesters: Absinthe & Other Botanical Spirits Natasha Clarke: Locavore Herbalism Paul Bergner: Going Deeper to Get The Gift Jim McDonald: Putting Ideas Into Practice Valerie Camacho The Radical Possibilities of Kitchen Medicine w/Carolina Valder: Jesse Wolf Hardin: An Herbalist's Code of Honor Guido Masé Connecting The Ecologies: The Healing Relationship Kiva Rose Hardin: Mythopoeia: Flora, Story, & Culture