Herbal Voices : American Herbalism Through the Words of American Herbalists

ISBN-13: 9780789022042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 402 str.

Anne Kathleen Dougherty

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Through interviews with 20 leading herbalists from across the US, this title explores the roles of science and folklore in modern herbalism, the endangered plant crisis, spirituality in herbal healing, and much more.

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• Foreword (Robbie Davis-Floyd)
  
• Preface and Acknowledgments
  
• PART I: THE WEAVING
  
• Chapter 1. The Dream: My Process and Methodology
  
• Chapter 2. The Terrain: Consideration of Botanical Medicine and Holistic Herbalism
  
• Botanical Medicine
  
• Holistic Herbalism
  
• Chapter 3. Recycling Science and Grasping the Ungraspable: Cartesian Thought and Folklore in Herbal Practice
  
• How Does Modern Biomedicine Enhance the Practice of Herbalism?
  
• What Does Herbalism Derive from Folklore?
  
• Observation and Change: The Link Between Science and Folklore
  
• Chapter 4. Free-Form Goes Mainstream: The Debate over Licensure and Professionalization
  
• A Case for Licensure
  
• The Reservations
  
• Chapter 5. The Ecology of Herbalism: The Role of the Herbal Community in the Endangered Plant Crisis
  
• The Role of Industry in the Endangered Plant Crisis
  
• What About Beyond Industry?
  
• Are Plants Really Endangered? An Herbalist’s Perspective
  
• Chapter 6. Sinking Roots, Reaching Branches: Spirituality and Tradition in Modern American Herbalism
  
• The “Borrowing” of American Herbalism
  
• Giving Back
  
• The Herbalist and the Spirit: Unification
  
• PART II: THE THREADS—INTERVIEWS WITH TWENTY AMERICAN HERBALISTS
  
• Chapter 7. Laura Batcha
  
• Green Mountain Herbs (GMH)
  
• Running a Heart-Centered Business on the National Level
  
• The Boom in Natural Products
  
• Current Federal Regulations
  
• Small Companies and Consumer Expectations
  
• The Mission of GMH
  
• Endangered Plants
  
• Certifying Efficacy
  
• Nature of Clinical Trials
  
• Advice for People Wanting to Get into the Herb Business
  
• Educating Consumers About Heart-Centered Herbal Products
  
• Chapter 8. Richo Cech
  
• Factors Contributing to At-Risk Plants
  
• Criteria for Listing on the UpS At-Risk List
  
• Role of Manufacturing in the Endangered-Plant Crisis
  
• Rationale and Effect of Listing Goldenseal on CITES—Appendix II
  
• Monopopularizing and the Limited Mainstream Materia Medica
  
• Proactive Approach of UpS
  
• Chapter 9. Ryan Drum
  
• Herbalism and Its Renewed Popularity
  
• Clinical and Lay Herbalists
  
• Education in the Marketplace
  
• Necessity of a Thorough Education for Practitioners
  
• Clinician-Patient Relationship
  
• Usefulness of Science and Folklore
  
• Forging a Relationship with the Allopathic Community
  
• Offering Herbs When Antibiotics Are Not Appropriate
  
• Chapter 10. Daniel Gagnon
  
• Holistic Health
  
• The Process Rather Than the Pill
  
• More on Holistic Health
  
• Is the American Public Healthier Today?
  
• Helping the Mainstream Access Herbal Information
  
• Medical Science and Its Interface with Herbalism
  
• Science versus Folklore in Evaluating Herbs
  
• Holistic versus Allopathic Herbalism
  
• Mainstream Access to Holistic Health
  
• Licensure for Herbalists
  
• Education for Herbalists
  
• Endangered Plants, Organic Growing of Herbs, and Diversifying the Mainstream Materia Medica
  
• Chapter 11. Leslie Gardner
  
• Leaving Clinical Practice
  
• Working in Deep Relationship with Plants
  
• Commercialization of Herbs
  
• Why the Herbal Renaissance Is Happening Now
  
• Opening the Mainstream up to Holistic Herbalism
  
• Steps an Herbalist Can Take to Preserve Herbalism
  
• Ritual
  
• Rediscovery of Ritual in America
  
• What Makes Ritual Meaningful?
  
• Rituals That Anyone Can Do
  
• Plant Allies
  
• Education for Herbalists
  
• Benefits of Classroom Learning
  
• Integrating Different Experiences of H

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