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The Ecology of Herbal Medicine
A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest
By Dara Saville
Foreword by Jesse Wolf Hardin
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine introduces botanical medicine through an in-depth exploration of the land, presenting a unique guide to plants found across the American Southwest. An accomplished herbalist and geographer, Dara Saville offers readers an ecological manual for developing relationships with the land and plants in a new theoretical approach to using herbal medicines.
Designed to increase our understanding of plants’ rapport with their environment, this trailblazing herbal speaks to our innate connection to place and provides a pathway to understanding the medicinal properties of plants through their ecological relationships. With thirty-nine plant profiles and detailed color photographs, Saville provides an extensive materia medica in which she offers practical tools and information alongside inspiration for working with plants in a way that restores our connection to the natural world.
Designed to increase our understanding of plants’ rapport with their environment, this trailblazing herbal speaks to our innate connection to place and provides a pathway to understanding the medicinal properties of plants through their ecological relationships. With thirty-nine plant profiles and detailed color photographs, Saville provides an extensive materia medica in which she offers practical tools and information alongside inspiration for working with plants in a way that restores our connection to the natural world.
Product Details
- Publisher: UNM Press (March 1, 2021)
- Length: 328 pages
- ISBN13: 9780826362186
Raves and Reviews
Dara Saville's new book, The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest, is a revelation of connections--the land, the plants that grow on it, the herbs that humans produce from the plants, and the animals that find nourishment in those plants.--David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal
In this manual chock full of practical and personal experience in the 'living landscape,' [Saville] urges the reader to fall in love with the abundant plants and weeds of our Southwest environment--because only then can humans connect with and properly care for them.--Amy Boaz, Taos News
In this manual chock full of practical and personal experience in the 'living landscape,' [Saville] urges the reader to fall in love with the abundant plants and weeds of our Southwest environment--because only then can humans connect with and properly care for them.--Amy Boaz, Taos News
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine is lively and highly informed. . . . [Saville's] extensive knowledge of her subject and devotion to her cause will attract anyone concerned about prevalent ecological crises and the consequent and continuing loss of valuable plant species.--Barbara Bamberger Scott, Bookreporter.com
A unique ecological perspective for the use of herbal medicine in the Southwest.--Kelly Kindscher, editor of Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History
Move over, Michael Moore: Dara Saville's ecological herbal is the most unique and refreshing view on the healing power of plants--for both human health and land health--to be published in decades!--Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities
Dara Saville's ecological herbal will be an often-consulted volume on my bookshelf for years to come!--Judith Phillips, author of Growing the Southwest Garden: Regional Ornamental Gardening
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