Woman as Healer

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0877736162
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers; the persecution of women healers in the witch hunts of the Middle Ages; the development of midwifery and nursing as women's professions in the nineteenth century; and the current role of women and the state of the healing arts, as a time of crisis in the health-care professions coincides with the reemergence of feminine values.

Sacred Woman

Author: Queen Afua
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307559513
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 497

Book Description
The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.

Woman as Healer

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834828715
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Woman Heal Thyself

Author: Jeanne Elizabeth Blum
Publisher: HarperElement
ISBN: 9781852309008
Category : Alternative medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Based on the wisdom of ancient teachings, this book introduces a practical system for modern day life that aims to help women to regulate their menstrual cycles and take control of their bodies.

Women Healers

Author: Elisabeth Brooke
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892815487
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Offering a provocative reconstruction of the history of women's healing practices, Brooke argues that the medieval image of the healer as witch was deliberately constructed by Church officials to discredit women's powers. In its place she provides a more accurate picture of these innovative, compassionate, and capable practitioners.

Medicine Women

Author: Elisabeth Brooke
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835607513
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Women have always been healers -- from the priestess healers in the temples of Isis, to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval times, to the physicians, researchers, and alternative practitioners of today. This glorious book celebrates the history of women healers from earliest times to the present. It includes profiles of women healers from all traditions. Some are well known, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Baker Eddy. Others deserve to be more widely recognized, such as Trotula of Salerno, who wrote gynecological and obstetrical texts in thirteenth-century Italy, and Mama Lola, a respected mambo or healing priestess in the Haitian Voodoo tradition. Text and pictures detail the many contributions of women to the healing arts, from the founding of nursing orders and the tending of soldiers, to the establishment of public health hospitals, to contemporary applications of the ancient lore of herbal medicine and therapeutic touch.

All Women Are Healers

Author: Diane Stein
Publisher: Crossing Press
ISBN: 0307783774
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
“By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase. Women’s emphasis on one-to-one work practiced in mutual agreement and participation is very different from mechanized and big-money medicine, and has results and successes far beyond expectations. The emphasis on self-healing returns health care to the consumer, to women’s lives and bodies, for the first time in centuries. The medical system cannot control a movement held in the hands of women, though it may try. Women are taking control again of healing, our daughter-right, for the first time since the matriarchies and the Inquisition.”—from the Introduction

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
This book looks at the history of medical practice, argues that the suppression of female healers began with the European witch hunts, and describes the sexism of the current medical establishment.

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

Author: L. Whaley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230295177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.

Herbal Healing for Women

Author: Rosemary Gladstar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501175556
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Simple, safe, and effective herbal home remedies for women of all ages! From menstruation to menopause, learn how to prepare natural treatments for acne, PMS, morning sickness, hot flashes, yeast infections, and more. For centuries women have turned to herbs to cope with a wide variety of health problems and conditions. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies—including teas, tinctures, salves, and ointments—for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman's life. Covering adolescence, childbearing years, pregnancy and childbirth, and menopause, Rosemary Gladstar teaches how herbs can be used to treat the symptoms of conditions such as acne, PMS, morning sickness, and hot flashes. A complete women's health-care manual, Herbal Healing for Women discusses: -common disorders and the herbs that are effective for treating them -how to select and store herbs -preparation of hundreds of herbal remedies -an alphabetical listing of herbs, including a brief description of the herb, the general medicinal usage, and when necessary, warnings about potential side effects. By explaining the properties of specific herbs and the art of preparation, Rosemary Gladstar demonstrates not only how to achieve healing through herbs but good health as well.