Hildegard's Healing Plants

Author: Hildegard Von Bingen
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807021091
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Medieval saint, mystic, healer, and visionary-Hildegard von Bingen has made a comeback. She is now popular in natural healing circles, in medieval and women's studies, and among those interested in investing the everyday with the spiritual. Hildegard's Healing Plants is a gift version and new translation of the 'Plant' section of Physica, Hildegard's classic work on health and healing. Hildegard comments on 230 plants and grains-most of which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food stores. In one of many entries on women's health, Hildegard writes, 'Also if a pregnant woman labors much in childbirth, let someone cook pleasant herbs, such as fennel and assurum, in water with fear and great moderation, squeeze out the water, and place them while they are warm around her thighs and back, tied gently with a piece of cloth, so that her pain and her closed womb is opened more pleasantly and easily.' Whether read for the sheer enjoyment of Hildegard's earthy, intelligent voice ("Let a man who has an overabundance of lust in his loins cook wild lettuce in water and pour it over himself in a sauna") or for her encyclopedic and often still relevant understanding of natural health, Hildegard's Healing Plants is a treasure for gardeners, natural healing enthusiasts, and Hildegard fans everywhere. Hildegard's Healing Plants includes 230 plants and grains-most of which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food stores.

Hildegard's Healing Plants

Author: Hildegard Von Bingen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756769017
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
This is a completely new translation of the PlantÓ section of Physica,Ó Hildegard of Bingen's classic 12th-century work on health & healing. Saint Hildegard writes on 230 plants & grains -- most of which are still grown in home gardens & sold at local health food stores. Her understanding of the balancing of hot & cold humorsÓ reflects a strong affinity with Asian medical approaches, now in the mainstream. Anyone interested in natural healing will be intrigued by the deep practical sense behind her theories, grounded in the natural world, many of which prove effective today. A treasure for gardeners, natural healing enthusiasts, & Hildegard fans everywhere. Bruce Hozeski, founder of Hildegard studies in the U.S., has translated her work.

Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica

Author: Saint Hildegard
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892816613
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Saint, mystic, healer, visionary, and fighter, Hildegard von Bingen stands as one of the great figures in the history of women in medicine. She was renowned for her healing work and her original theories of medicine.

Hildegard of Bingen's Spiritual Remedies

Author: Wighard Strehlow
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892819850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Hildegard of Bingen recognized what the holistic health movement has only recently restored to our consciousness: that full health can only be experienced in a state of spiritual balance. Dr. Strehlow gives readers practical suggestions based on the integration of 35 spiritual forces of the human soul in order to "cure the soul within," which he synthesized from five of Hildegard's books on spiritual and psychological healing principles.

Hildegard's Healing Plants

Author: Hildegard Von Bingen
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807021095
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Hildegard of Bingen

Author: Heinrich Schipperges
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
The contemporaries of Hildegard of Bingen called her prophetissa teutonica, honouring her philosophical writings and interpretation of the cosmos. Mediaevalists still consider her one of the leading mystics, and point to her active spiritual and artistic life in the 12th century as the finest example of what a woman can achieve. The abbess Hildegard of Bingen was the first composer to sign her musical works. As a playwright and author, she witnessed and shaped the time of the Crusades, the literary minnesang, and political and theological debate. The author of this text draws a complex picture of her life and work, as he translates Hildegard's ideas and her mysterious world of symbols from mediaeval Latin into contemporary concepts. Heinrich Schipperges delineates this remarkable thinker's view of the human being as a microcosm of the universe, intricately bound by the senses to the life of the soul, nature, and God.

Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine

Author: Dr. Wighard Strehlow
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780939680443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This ground-breaking contribution to medicine and healing contains translations of Hildegard text which reflect the high point of medieval, alchemical, and healing science. Commentary by the authors who have worked clinically with Hildegard's wisdom for over thirty years includes information on ways to treat nervous disorders, indigestion, heart problems, and cancer.

Medieval Herbal Remedies

Author: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.

Holistic Healing

Author: Saint Hildegard
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814622247
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
The author discusses the use of natural ingredients in diet and therapy to alleviate pain and to foster healing and gives insights into human physiology and pathology.

The New Healing Herbs

Author: Michael Castleman
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9781579543044
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
The newly revised and updated reference guide to herbal medicine offers readers sound advice on how to use more than 100 popular plants for healing purposes.