2012 Herbal Resurgence Class Notes Book Available

2012 Herbal Resurgence Class Notes Book Available

      Announcing 2012 Herbal Resurgence Class Notes Book $18 www.HerbalResurgence.org/merch For those of you who missed out on attending the 2012 Herbal Resurgence Rendezvous in Arizona last September, we’re now offering a special combined Class Notes and Event Book in pdf form, 230 pages of priceless herbal information from a majority of last year’s Resurgence teachers. We’ve included much of the Event Book that was handed out to participants, with information on the site’s history and plant diversity to give you a feel for the gathering, along with awesome herbal info and tips including: 7Song: The Herbalist Street Medic 7Song: Patient Compliance For The Practicing Herbalist Paul Bergner: Sitting With a Plant Paul Bergner: Sitting...

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Plant Totems: Identifying Our Most Personal Herbal Ally by Jesse Wolf Hardin

Plant Totems: Identifying Our Most Personal Herbal Ally by Jesse Wolf Hardin

The following is excerpted from a much longer piece featured in the current issue of Plant Healer Magazine, and that will be included in Wolf’s next book, “Finding Our Medicine”.  As far as I know it is the most extensive and inspirational work ever done on the seldom explored subject of personal, practical plant totems.  Thank you for reposting and sharing this! -Kiva Rose PLANT TOTEMS Identifying & Learning From Our Most Personal Plant Ally By Jesse Wolf Hardin The Ojibway word “totem” originally refers to a plant or animal symbol for a specific family or clan, not unlike the creature emblems on ancient European Coat of Arms.  Thus we talk about “totem poles” when referring to trees carved into vertically stacked animals, each signifying a...

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Purple Haze: The Resinous Medicine of Aster Rhizome, Leaf, and Flower

Purple Haze: The Resinous Medicine of Aster Rhizome, Leaf, and Flower

Botanical Names: Dieteria bigelovii (formerly Aster bigelovii), but also Aster tataricus, Symphyotrichum (formerly Aster) novae-angliae, Aster subspicatus, and probably many others. Common Names: Purple Sticky Aster, Bigelow’s Spine Aster, also Douglas Aster, New England Aster, etc., Taste: Bitter, sweet, aromatic Impression: Oily, aromatic Energetics: Slightly warm, Moistening in the oily sense Actions: Aromatic (and thus, Carminative), Relaxant Diaphoretic, Expectorant Specific Indications: Lung deficiency, Cough with cold signs, Asthma with tension and spasmodic coughing/wheezing, Cough initiated by cold/flu onset with tension I first learned of this beautiful medicine from Jim McDonald through his work with the very similar New England Aster, which in turn...

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New Herbal Resurgence Site!

New Herbal Resurgence Site!

Your new Herbal Resurgence is uploaded and ready for you to check out!  Kiva spent most of the last several days creating it with new software, making the menu more intuitive and easy to read, and making the many crucial judgment calls that are the primary reason we can never hire development out to a webmaster.  While there’s admittedly a lot of work involved for both of us, we feel it requires our personal attentions, and the results are certainly most gratifying!: www.HerbalResurgence.org We’ve gone for a new look yet again, exuding more of this event’s particular wildness, flair and exuberance with each subsequent upgrade.  I created the masthead to reflect Arizona’s lush green forests as well as the burnt orange and shaded umber of its fabled...

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Announcing Teachers for 2013 Herbal Resurgence

Announcing Teachers for 2013 Herbal Resurgence

Announcing the Teachers for the 2013 HERBAL RESURGENCE RENDEZVOUS Sept 19-22 Against all odds, Herbal Resurgence/TWHC continues to act as a seedbed for the revival and reinvigoration of folk herbalism in the western world, fostering its culture, serving its diverse community, and growing in ways never expected. Download the Announcement for 2013 Details For the latest details about the upcoming 2013 event, download and share the: 2013 Herbal Resurgence Information New Herbal Resurgence Website I wrote almost entirely new text for the Herbal Resurgence website, which will be up later this week!  Kiva is hard at work creating pages and layout even as we speak. It effectively replaces the old Traditions In Western Herbalism site with three important components. ...

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