Penguin Random House The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants

• Traditional herbalists or wise women were not only good botanists or pharmacologists
• they were also shamanic practitioners and keepers of occult knowledge about the powerful properties of plants
• Traveling back to the healing arts of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans
• The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners takes readers deep into this world, through the leechcraft of heathen society and witches’ herb bundles to the cloister gardens of the Middle Ages
• It also examines herbal medicine today in the traditional Chinese apothecary, the Indian ayurvedic system, homeopathy, and Native American medicine

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