Herbalism & Botanical Wisdom
Native American Herbalist’s Bible
One of our favourite—and most complete guides into herbalism, shaped, informed, and supported by Native American wisdom. You’ll find tons of different theoretical and practical examples of how to cure ailments, improve certain health conditions, and detoxify and boost your system using the most natural ways.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Also another favourite, Braiding Sweetgrass is a humble and deeply felt account by Native American botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer where she prompts us to widen our ecological consciousness in order to acknowledge and celebrate our reciprocal relationship with plants, trees, animals, our Mother Earth, and every living being. Beautiful!
Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide
This book is a classic and a wonderful way to approach herbalism if you’re a beginner. With very simple advice on common healing plants and examples of how to grow, harvest and prepare them.
Herbal Healing for Women
Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies—including teas, tinctures, salves, and ointments—for the common disorders and conditions that affect our female reproductive cycles.
Whole Beauty, Shiva Rose
We love this book because it is such a wonderful and simple guide to approaching self-care as a ritualistic practice. Here, Shiva Rose talks a little bit about everything from Ayurveda to Yoga, herbs, crystals, goddesses, and natural beauty treatments. You’ll find lovely ways to make your every day more special with the practice of ritual.