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A beautifully illustrated herbal guide to every stage of life, that connects us to the medicinal plants that grow around us.This stunning, one of a kind book is a practical and creative manual that invites us to deepen our relationship with the bounty of the natural world, showing us how we might use plants to support our health.
From babes to elders, and all the life-stages and transitions in between, this is an indispensable handbook designed to celebrate the journey of life and help us overcome some of the challenges we may face along the way.
With recipes for simple medicine-making, self-prescribing and foraging advice,
Wild Apothecary is a beginner's guide to herbalism, for all people, and explores the practical applications of plant medicines for the home or community.
Each chapter highlights specific health conditions associated with each phase of life and describes how to work with plant allies and lifestyle changes to promote wellbeing. Rewilding and journaling exercises help the reader go deeper and contemplate their connection with themselves and nature.
There is also a special chapter on grief, plus an examination of herbal medicine in the context of colonisation.
List of contents
Acknowledgements and about
A wild welcome
Chapter 1: Wild medicine, plant medicine and us
Chapter 2: Life with a wild apothecary
Chapter 3: Folk and flora, energetics of wild medicine
Chapter 4: Emerging buds: babes and children
Chapter 5: Opening buds: youth
Chapter 6: From bud to bloom: transitions
Chapter 7: Blossom: women
Chapter 8: Bloom: men
Chapter 9: Plant kin: wisdom of elders
Chapter 10: Back to the roots: grief
Chapter 11: Radical roots: decolonial reflections
The wild journey ahead
A few resources
Index
About the author
Amaia Dadachanji is a practising herbalist at the Wild Apothecary near Stroud, Gloucestershire where she lives with her two young children. She sees patients, teaches herbalism, crafts botanicals, draws, and writes about herbalism and a wilder life. She is also deepening her knowledge of ceremony, grief tending, and land practices through studies and work. Her work Land Is She is centred on connecting women with land and healing through rewilding, intuiting, and tending through folk and flora kinship. Amaia has travelled extensively and learned, with gratitude, alongside herbalists all over the world and hopes to share her knowledge with others through community medicine gardens, ethical foraging, her words, images and voice.
Claudia Manchanda is a grandmother, radical herbalist, bio-scientist and lecturer who has a background in social justice activism, community cooking projects and campaigns against deaths in custody. She lives in London organising radical herb walks, teaching integrated cancer care and advocating for patients.
Summary
A beautifully illustrated herbal guide to every stage of life, that connects us to the medicinal plants that grow around us.
