Hildegard's Healing Plants

Release on 2002-05-112002-05-11 by Hildegard Von Bingen

Author: Hildegard Von Bingen

Publisher: Beacon Press

ISBN: 0807021091

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 210

View: 512

Medieval saint, mystic, healer, and visionary-Hildegard von Bingen has made a comeback. She is now popular in natural healing circles, in medieval and women's studies, and among those interested in investing the everyday with the spiritual. Hildegard's Healing Plants is a gift version and new translation of the 'Plant' section of Physica, Hildegard's classic work on health and healing. Hildegard comments on 230 plants and grains-most of which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food stores. In one of many entries on women's health, Hildegard writes, 'Also if a pregnant woman labors much in childbirth, let someone cook pleasant herbs, such as fennel and assurum, in water with fear and great moderation, squeeze out the water, and place them while they are warm around her thighs and back, tied gently with a piece of cloth, so that her pain and her closed womb is opened more pleasantly and easily.' Whether read for the sheer enjoyment of Hildegard's earthy, intelligent voice ("Let a man who has an overabundance of lust in his loins cook wild lettuce in water and pour it over himself in a sauna") or for her encyclopedic and often still relevant understanding of natural health, Hildegard's Healing Plants is a treasure for gardeners, natural healing enthusiasts, and Hildegard fans everywhere. Hildegard's Healing Plants includes 230 plants and grains-most of which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food stores.

Health & Fitness

Language: en
Pages: 210

Hildegard's Healing Plants

Authors: Hildegard Von Bingen

Categories: Health & Fitness

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-11 - Publisher: Beacon Press

Language: en
Pages: 192

Hildegard's Healing Plants

Authors: Saint Hildegard

Categories: Health & Fitness

Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)

Medieval saint, mystic, healer, and visionary—Hildegard von Bingen has made a comeback. She is now popular in natural healing circles, in medieval and women's studies, and among those interested in investing the everyday with the spiritual. Hildegard's Healing Plants is a gift version and new translation of the "Plant" section

Language: en
Pages: 270

Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden

Authors: Peter Dendle, Alain Touwaide

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.

Language: en
Pages: 161

Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine

Authors: Dr. Wighard Strehlow, Gottfried Hertzka

Categories: Health & Fitness

Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

This ground-breaking contribution to medicine and healing contains translations of Hildegard text which reflect the high point of medieval, alchemical, and healing science. Commentary by the authors who have worked clinically with Hildegard's wisdom for over thirty years includes information on ways to treat nervous disorders, indigestion, heart problems, and

Language: en
Pages: 484

The New Healing Herbs

Authors: Michael Castleman

Categories: Health & Fitness

Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-04-21 - Publisher: Rodale

The newly revised and updated reference guide to herbal medicine offers readers sound advice on how to use more than 100 popular plants for healing purposes.