Interview with Curandero Charles Garcia
Plant Healer Interview with Charles “Doc” Garcia (curandero) In Dialogue With Jesse Wolf Hardin – May, 2012 Doc Garcia is the founder of the California School of Traditional Hispanic Herbalism, street herbalist and well intentioned provocateur, as well as a regular Plant Healer writer and teacher at the Traditions In Western Herbalism Conferences. His teachings and unique personal style impresses, excites, amazes and sometimes offends or dismays, but never fails to earn a reaction. How to describe him? The Doc is a street warrior known to go around packing love, savvy and herbs in his quest to tend the hearts and bodies of society’s diverse underprivileged, its unseen fringe dwellers and needy outliers. He is Teresita seeing to the wounded in...
Greek Herbal Medicine: The Four Qualities and the Four Degrees by Matthew Wood
Intro: The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2012 issue Plant Healer, herbalist Matthew Wood’s excellent explanation of the basics of Greek Herbal Medicine, a predecessor to subsequent Western herbal healing traditions. This never before published work is an example of the contributions Matt has been making to Plant Healer Magazine through his regular column, and to our contemporary herbal community. Matthew is also teaching on related subject matter at this year’s Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference in the lakes region of northern Arizona! –Kiva Rose and Jesse Wolf Hardin Greek Herbal Medicine: The Four Qualities and the Four Degrees by Matthew Wood Excerpted From the Summer Issue of Plant Healer Magazine To Read the entire piece,...
What Herbalists Really Want
Excerpted from the current issue of Plant Healer Magazine! What Herbalists Really Want: Manifesting Calling & Purpose, Competency & Excellence, Acknowledgment & Income… & Avoiding Being Average! by Jesse Wolf Hardin It seems that at some point in every generation, articles and posters pop up titled something like “What Women (or Men) Really Want,” checklists with which the so-called “opposite sex” can measure and then hopefully improve their desirability. The language and priorities change some over time, with versions from the 19th and early 20th centuries often sounding ridiculous to modern ears. That said, many of the same themes tend to appear again and again from one era to the next. Women, it is claimed, want a man of...
Whitewater-Baldy Wildfire Close To Anima – May 27 Map
(Please see the Anima Blog for the previous post talking more about the fire) Whitewater/Baldy Wildfire May 27 Update and Latest Map Now Level With Anima Sanctuary and Only 10 Miles East of Us The Whitewater-Baldy continued it’s mad race yesterday, the 50mph winds pushing the flames hard and fast. If the winds had continued being south winds blowing straight north, our Anima Sanctuary would already be burning by today (Sunday). In a single night the fire gobbled up another 20 plus thousands acres of forest ecosystem, to over 130,000 acres by this morning, a long thin spur of the fire has made it as far north as the Anima property, and only about 10 miles to the east of us! Because the winds have shifted for now, the leading spur is continuing towards...
Critical Intuition Excerpt by Paul Bergner
Critical Intuition: Knowing The Difference Between Intuiting & Projecting Excerpted from the Herbal Rebel Column in the now available Spring 2012 Issue of Plant Healer Magazine by Paul Bergner In previous columns, I have spoken of a Four Directions model of obtaining knowledge, of study, that may be applied to herbalism or any other field of endeavor. In the North, we diligently study traditions and what previous generations have left for us in books or oral tradition. In the South we throw ourselves into practical experience, alone, in groups, or in our communities, tasting and experimenting the plants and the contexts of their healing, testing the promise of the studies of the past. In the East, in this era, we look at new information or perspectives that...
Kids, Common Infections, Herbs & Antibiotics by Aviva Romm
Kids, Common Infections, Herbs & Antibiotics Excerpted from the now available Spring 2012 Issue of Plant Healer Magazine by Aviva Romm September 1, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a report on the problem of unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for kids. They found that doctors are unnecessarily prescribing antibiotics for kids more than 50% of the time, most often for upper respiratory infections (colds, coughs, ear infections, sinusitis, and sore throats). Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing is the primary cause of antibiotic resistance, which is a major global public health problem. Further, medical science is waking up to the fact that pediatric antibiotic exposure is not benign for the individual, and may lead to asthma, eczema, and...
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