Herbal Medicine for Modern Life - by Ruth Blanding (Paperback)

About the Book

"Discover the enduring wisdom and healing power of plant medicine. Curative and restorative for our health, plants have supported humanity for millennia. While the wisdom of plant medicine has not changed dramatically, the ailments of our modern digital age have. In this book, herbalist Ruth A. Blanding infused evidence-based knowledge with her deep connection to the earth to provide everyday remedies with ancient roots. You'll learn to work with medicinal herbs in ways that reconnect you to nature's healing energy and address the root causes of many modern ailments so you can feel balanced, healthy, and whole again"--

Book Synopsis

Protect, heal, and revitalize your health with herbal remedies crafted to treat ailments from modern living

In today's busy world, our disconnection from the earth has led to an overreliance on health interventions that don't always work. With Herbal Medicine for Modern Life, you'll discover the enduring wisdom of plant medicine with an herbalist who draws on her connection to the ancestors and nature to support health and wellness. With her expert advice, you'll learn how to benefit from the folkloric use of plants: how to use them to heal the root causes of many modern ailments and bring you back to feeling balanced, healthy, and whole again.

• Ancient Remedies for Modern Needs. Learn to tap into traditional medicine for modern health issues like anxiety, allergies, hormone imbalances, and more.
• Approachable, Affordable Herbalism. Make safe and powerful herbal medicine in the comfort of your home with easy-to-source medicinal plants and everyday tools.
• Profiles of Powerful Medicinal Plants. Discover more than 35 medicinal herbs with photos and details about therapeutic actions, contraindications, and healing qualities.
• Wide Range of Herbal Remedies. Follow step-by-step recipes to craft infusions, tinctures, syrups, balms, powders, and other common herbal preparations.

About the Author

Ruth Blanding is a modern herbalist and birth and wellness practitioner who lives and works with her heart and passions strongly rooted in her multicultural ancestry. She enjoys mindfully combining the time-trusted "grandmother wisdom" learned from the Earth and nature practices of her African and Native American ancestry, with her love for solid, factual, whole being-centered care. She comes from a long line of healers, shamans, and medicine people and has always had a deep connection with the healing magic of herbs, the mindful touch of hands to body, and the deep meditative healing practices that sit in the body-memory of every living being. When not working, Ruth can be found writing, herb crafting, playing in the dirt, and enjoying a simple and beautiful life with her children.