The Untold History of Healing, Wolf D. Storl
The Untold History of Healing, Wolf D. Storl
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The Untold History of Healing
Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present

Author: Wolf D. Storl

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2017

Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Wolf D. Storl, PhD, is an ethnobotanist and the author of some two dozen books on herbalism, alternative medicine, ethnobotany, and shamanism. Born in Saxony, Germany, he received his PhD in ethnology from the University of Berne, Switzerland. His early post-doctorate career includes research in a Swiss biodynamic farming community, teaching anthropology and organic gardening at Rogue College in Oregon, participant-observer research at a traditional Swiss farm, and two years in India as a visiting scholar at the Benares Hindu University. Always interested in local gardening practices in his travels around the world, 25 years ago Dr. Storl was able to put his learning to the test when he and his family moved to a mountain farmstead in southern Germany. There he maintains a year-round vegetable garden and continues to teach, also appearing on television in the U.S. and many countries in Europe as a spokesman for natural horticulture. The author lives in Rohrdorf, Germany.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicholas on January 27, 2019

Review: Storl, W. (2017). The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. Until now my reading and interest in medicinal herbs and my teaching and writing about ecstatic or shamanic trance has centered in the hunting an......more

Goodreads review by Pibble on August 18, 2017

The woo was a bit thick in places but this book was full of the fascinating history of how language, location and lore came together to shape the healing traditions in Europe and North America.......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on May 19, 2017

Big thanks to Goodreads for this giveaway! Let's get that out of the way. So, the one thing you can't say about this book is that it isn't well researched. 290 pages and packed full of information, not to mention the extra 17 pages of notes and an extensive bibliography. Of equal importance for me, i......more

Goodreads review by Ian on January 01, 2018

I received this book in the giveaways and was fairly surprised at how well researched and thorough this book was. It's actually really well put together and follows a history of beliefs, practices, and histories of people as well as their medicines. Pleasantly surprised and happy with this book.......more

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