The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present
ISBN-13: 9781623170936
ISBN-10: 1623170931
Addition ISBN: 9781623172213, 9781623179786, 162317094X, 9781623170943
Author(s): Wolf D. Storl, Publisher: North Atlantic Books
This captivating history of medicine traces healing practices from the Stone Age to modern times, highlighting ancient knowledge and plant-based treatments. This absorbing history of medicine takes the reader on a sweeping journey, revealing that Western medicine has its origins not only in the academic tradition of doctors and pharmacists, but in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers. Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wolf D. Storl vividly describes the many ways that ancient peoples have used the plants in their immediate environment, along with handed-down knowledge and traditions, to treat the variety of ailments they encountered in daily life.