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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
The Assumed Origin of Medicine
A Modern Myth
The Ecological Embedding of Classical Healing Systems
European Woodland Culture
Great Tradition, Little Tradition
Cultural Convergences
Chapter 2
The Herbal Tea of the Forest People
Chinese Tea Culture
Herbal Practices in Other Cultures
Fire and Water
Rain and Sun
From the Beer Mug to the Holy Grail
The Daily Cycle
The Cross as a Primal Symbol
Chapter 3
The World of the Paleolithic Big Game Hunters
Healing Plants and Diseases of the Old Stone Age
The Main Circumpolar Healing Herbs
Sweat Lodge and Baking Oven
Emetics and Purgatives
Shamanism
Chapter 4
The First Farmers
Witches, Stags, and Forest People
Sedentary Lifestyle and New Diseases
Arable Weeds (Segetal Flora)
Apophytes
Tough Wayside Dwellers
Chapter 5
The Appearance of the Nomads of the Steppes
Illness Is a Bad Spell
Agents and Causes of Disease
Healing Gods
Healing Arts
Destroying “Worms”
The Essence of Healing Herbs
Signatures and Signs
Roots and Wortcunners
Chapter 6
Cloister Gardens
Religious Legends
The Saints and Their Plants
The Comeback and Metamorphosis of Heathen Customs
Hildegard of Bingen
The Turning of the Wheel
Chapter 7
Professionalization
Heretics
Pestilence and Syphilis
Arabic Influence in Medical Vocabulary
Chapter 8
Housewives and Grandmothers
Herdsmen and Smiths
Midwives
Magical and Shamanic Women of the Forest Peoples
The Remedies of the Womenfolk
Final Words: The Return of Ancestral Wisdom
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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