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economy. This affected use of herbs in medicine and in cooking as well, where, within the dark overcrowded slums of early urban life, they were less easy to find. It is perhaps no accident that Britain, the first and the greatest of the early industrialised nations, became well known for the lack of herbs within its food preparation; something that only relatively recently has become fashionable again [30]. These days there often seems to be a losing battle between herbalists, multi-billion dollar drugs companies and government regulatory departments, where those who produce pharmaceuticals do their best to downplay the benefits and expose the “dangers” of using herbal preparations, whilst simultaneously lobbying to have herbs legislated out of existence [31]. Modern medicine attempts to be as exact a science as possible and to this end tries to give standard and precise drugs, in well defined combinations, to cure disease and illness. Herbs by their very nature are often seen as being difficult to administer in such a precise way and, because of this, have tended to play little part in orthodox medicine. Throughout most of the twentieth century, herbal preparations used for therapeutic effect were relegated to being seen in varying degrees as “alternative medicine”. However, as use of pharmaceutical drugs has become ever more widespread, and tales of harmful side effects better known, more and more people have revisited the knowledge of the past. Many modern herbalists, whilst acknowledging the difficulty of precise herbal doses, stress that herbs often act far more gently on the human body and that the plants also contain many other ingredients that are beneficial, besides those that have the specific curative property required. There is also something slightly counter-cultural about being interested in herbs. Many drugs companies are seen as fleecing poorer nations, or, in effect, withholding medicines from those who cannot afford them in developing countries by making drugs prohibitively expensive. At the same time there is suspicion that big drug’s money seems to hold such sway over the political institutions of Westernised nations and considerable concern over their dealings with genetically modified plants, the patenting of seeds and so on. For many, the choice to use plants grown freely in nature to effect cures is not only about the perceived superiority of natural medicine, it is also a stand against monolithic and virtually unaccountable big business that seems to threaten not only human life but the well being of the planet itself. It is therefore no surprise that herbalism is often strongly identified with what it means to be a Witch or a Pagan, both of which are strongly counter-cultural religious choices that stand in part for a desire to see a more harmonious use made of Earthly resources. And for these groups especially, herbs are not only seen as having practical medicinal uses, or as a nutritious and wholesome way of flavouring cooking, they are also recognised as having important properties that enhance mystical visions and aid magickal workings. Modern Pagans often see herbs in a similar way to how many of our ancestors would have done in pre-industrial or ancient cultures, where they were valuable and amazing forms of plant life that could do incredible and little understood things in many areas of life. Today we can explain herbal curative properties with science, and their use in magick has often become standardised 16
and quite formulaic, but the sense of wonder has not been diminished and, in fact, our greater understanding of herbal properties on human life has just added to their effectiveness and ease of use. 17
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Page 38 and 39: 36 Lymphatic Glands Moon Muscles Ma
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Page 57 and 58: Love Philtres Use of love philtres
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Indicated Herbs Use Aloe Gel Used t
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Asthma Asthma is a chronic conditio
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Bronchitis There are two types of B
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Rosemary Anti-fungal to be added to
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They fall into two types: dry and n
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front of the elbows, the wrists, sc
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Hives Hives are red and often very
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can be exhausting and debilitating
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Premenstrual Tension (PMT, also kno
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Research Project As has already bee
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Appendix One Preliminary Questionna
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Which direction do they sleep in (i
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What part of the body seems to be m
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Chapter Five: Herbs and Practical M
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Rosemary - An herb of cleansing and
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Kabbalistic Correspondences Why bot
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Putting it all Together Having know
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Green Love, change, play, instincti
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Lilac Aids past life regression Mus
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Lughnasdah The season of the harves
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Ritual Baths Ritual baths are an im
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“Blessed be thy feet, that have b
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Research Project This chapter there
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Chapter Six: Herbs and Aromatherapy
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the African Sun and infuse the air
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The Magickal Theory of Aroma So, we
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Incenses Although the burning of in
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Essential Oils Essential oils are m
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A Short A-Z of Aromatherapy Treatme
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Eczema Fever (Mild) Headaches Indig
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Research Project This chapter’s r
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[16] Mysteries of the mind and smel
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Chapter Seven: Herbal Alchemy 131
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The origins of the term alchemy are
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science and numerology, but he adde
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The first Matter or material to und
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Sterilization by boiling is suffici
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As with the preparation of a tinctu
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Appendix One The Emerald Tablet Wit
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Appendix Three Planetary Hours of t
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Footnotes [1] See http://en.wikiped
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Chapter Eight: Homoeopathy 149
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For several centuries, a whole rang
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homeopathic remedy for treating flu
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they claim, however, is that the su
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Homeopathic Remedies Appendix The t
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Condition Particular Symptoms Prese
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[17] See Anthony Campbell, Homeopat
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Chapter Nine: Bach Flower Remedies
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developed seven bacterial “nosode
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Bach does not write of plant prepar
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Self Diagnosis and Treatment Please
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minutes. Visualise a chord of silve
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Appendix Bach's 38 Flower Remedies
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Name Bach’s Description. Indicate
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Name Bach’s Description. Indicate
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Footnotes [1] Edward Bach, Heal Thy
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Chapter Ten: Creating an Herb Garde
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Season Rain fall, Average Temperatu
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7. Lay the length of string from th
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the herb going to be a problem? It
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Herb Culinary Uses Parsley (flat le
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Creating an Herbal Research Project
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Footnotes [1] The following links m
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Reading List 199
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Chapter Three: Herbs in Religious a
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Samuel Hahnemann, R. E. Dudgeon, Tr
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