Healing arts

Junius, Manfred M. The practical handbook of plant alchemy an herbalists s guide to preparing medicinal essences, tinctures, and elixirs. Rochester (VT) Healing Arts P, 1993. ix, 262 p. ISBN 0-89281-485-3... 

Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural powers. As a snake and staff symbol it is also traditionally associated with the healing arts, either as the single-snake emblem of Asklepios, or as the double-snake emblem (caduceus) of Hermes. The mythological basis for this symbolism is reviewed. 

Danciger, Elizabeth. The emergence of homeopathy alchemy into medicine. Rochester (VT) [New York] Healing Arts Distributed by Harper and Row, 1988. 108p. ISBN 0892812907... 

Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga). Reprinted with permission from Schultes RE, Hofman A. (1992). Plants of the Gods Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers. Rochester, VT Healing Arts Press. 

Leathwood PD, Chauffard F, Heck E, Munoz-Box R. (1982). Aqueous extract of valerian root (Valeriana officinalis L.) improves sleep quality in man. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 17(1) 65-71. Lebot V, Merlin M, Lindstrom L. (1997). Kava—the Pacific Elixir The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry. Rochester, VT Healing Arts Press. [Originally published New Haven Yale University Press, 1992.]... 

Bibra E. (1995). Plant Intoxicants. Rochester, VT Healing Arts Press. 

These three prescriptions cover a span of nearly 2,500 years, but they have something fundamental in common They call for the use of natural products to cure illness. There have been relatively few times and few cultures in which natural products did not play a major role in the healing arts. Even today, in the highly modern world of the 21st century, extracts from plants and other organisms continue to he widely used in both developed and in developing nations. 

Prior to the 19th century, practitioners of the healing arts knew essentially nothing about either the chemical composition of natural products or the mechanisms by which they work. They relied entirely on tradition, and trial and error, in the choices they made of the substances they used in their work. 

I want the narratives in this book to enable healers and to empower patients. Those who practice the healing arts need to recognize that human beings are not inanimate receptacles for medical treatments. Rather, patients... 

The precursors of modem psychopharmaceuticals. Le. opium, hellebore and rauwolfia, cannot be considered in isolation but only by reference to their contemporary healing arts. Mental illnesses and their possible treatment have confronted people with the same questions at all times where do the irrational ideas and impulses of the insane come from their moods, notions, anxiety and illogical behavior Have these people sinned so that God has now cast an evil spirit into them as a punishment What is this evil spirit a spirit of nature, the ghost of an ancestor, a devil Or is it the patient s sick body that produces the delusions without an outside agent an unknown disease, a poison from within ... 

Halstead, B. W. and L. L. Hood. 1942. Eleutherococcus senticosus, Siberian Ginseng An Introduction to the Concept of Adaptogenic Medicine. Oriental Healing Arts Institute. Long Beach, CA. 94 p. 

OTT J., 1995d, "Technical notes", in Bibra E. von. Plant Intoxicants (Translation by H. Schleiffer of Die Narkotischen Genufimittel und der Mensch, Verlag von Wilhelm Schimd, Nurnberg, Germany, 1955), Healing Arts, Rochester, VT, 223-261. 

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Albert Hoffmann. The Tracks of the Little Deer. In Plants of the Gods—Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucenogenic Powers. Rochester, VT Healing Arts Press, 1992. 

Foster, S. 1991. The species identification and distribution. In Echinacea, Nature s Immune Enhancer , pp. 107-115. Healing Arts Press, Rochester, VT. 

Grossman, Joan Delaney. 2003. Briusov and the Healing Art Northern Nature in Pia granitakh. Russian Review 62(1) 110-31. 

This Precipitated Gold has the power of curing the plague, the pox, leprosy, dropsy, and other maladies which resist the healing art. It is a sovereign remedy for obstructions it will be serviceable... 

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