Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies. David Hoffmann

       Patterns of Muscular and Skeletal Disease

       The Glandular System

       Health and the Glands

       Herbs for the Glands

       Patterns of Disease in the Glandular System

       The Pancreas

       The Thyroid

       The Adrenal Glands

       The Reproductive System

       Herbs for the Female Reproductive System

       Patterns of Disease of the Female Reproductive System

       The Menstrual Cycle

       Pregnancy and Childbirth

       The Menopause

       Infections

       Herbs and Sexuality

       The Urinary System

       Herbs for the Urinary System..

       Patterns of Disease of the Urinary System

       Infections & Infestations

       Antibiotics

       Herbs for Infections and Infestations

       Treating Infections

       Treating Infestations

       Cancer

       Herbs and Cancer

       Nutrition and Cancer

       Psychological Factors and Cancer

       Wholeness and Prevention

       The Chemistry of Herbs

       The Actions of Herbs

       The Preparation of Herbs

       Internal Remedies

       External Remedies

       Gathering Herbs

      Calendar

       The Herbal

       Bibliography

       Repertory

       Index

       General Index

       Index of English Names

       Botanical Names

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Preface

      This is a beautiful and fascinating book, an enthralling gateway into a wonderful field. The beginner can understand and the expert really use it. David is to be congratulated on his achievement.

      The Hermetic Wisdom laid down as first principle that the universe is Mind, an ocean of living Intelligence; and as second principle the Law of Correspondences—as above, so below; as in the greatest, so in the smallest; as in the macrocosm, so in the microcosm.

      Holistic healing reveals the great truth. Thus reflexology can discover all imbalances in the bodily organism from the feet, iridology from the eye, and true phrenology from the conformation of the cranium. Every part contains the whole, as is so beautifully demonstrated by the shattered holographic plate. And now herbalism reveals all the secret gifts of nature for holistic healing.

      Our minds are still overcoming centuries of conditioning to ‘apartness’ thinking. The holistic world view lifts beyond such separation. We learn to see Truth as a hovering crystalline structure of many facets. You pick up one glint, I another, and the separatist reason can too easily conclude that, since I know and can prove I’m right, you must be wrong. All the glints together make up the Truth and we are finding that true ‘conversation’ (a ‘turning-about together’) is an art of helping each other to see the wonder of the whole revealed in every part. This lifts it above intellectual discussion or that debased form of exchange called argument.

      In holistic thinking we become eclectic and learn to draw our truth from many complementary sources. Thus herbalism opens up a wonderful field for natural healing and this beautiful book by David Hoffman will guide many into it, for it is an essential aspect of natural therapy.

      In our age of drugs and chemicals, here is a path to safe treatment which respects the Oneness of Life. This book is delightfully illustrated and produced, and the Findhorn Press is to be congratulated. All who are drawn into our movement for regeneration will want to possess it.