For millennia, plants were humanity’s first and most trusted medicines. Today, herbal medicine is pushed to the margins of mainstream healthcare. How did this happen and what are we left with?
In Uprooted Medicine, physician-herbalist Dr Dilis Clare and researcher Dr Tim Morrissey uncover how the current medical model sidelined the world’s oldest healing tradition. By drawing on both original sources and forgotten archives, they reveal the price we’ve paid in forgotten healing methods, and the personal cost of drug-related harm accompanying recent medical gains.
This is not nostalgia. This is a blueprint for a stronger, more complex medical approach that is based on evidence. It includes herbal medicine as a systematic resource for anyone who expects diverse solutions to the problems they face.
Clear, evidence-based, and hopeful, this book challenges readers to imagine a medicine that heals, collaborates, and restores.
The world has changed. Universal medicine is being examined for the first time. The human family is not comfortable with pills and potions mixed by corporations driven by hedge funds. The fundamentals, however, are the same as they have been for millennia: get sick, go outside, find a herb, take it, and get better. The Celts were famous for their medicines, which were proscribed in the shadow of the Brehon Laws. Once upon a time, they had the greatest Materia Medica in the world. What is old is now being renewed by a book called Uprooted Medicine. Dr. Diana B. Beresford-Kroeger, MSc, PhD (award-winning medical biochemist, botanist, and author).
Review:
If you are intrigued by the title and contents of this book, prepare for it to exceed your expectations.
“‘Uprooted Medicine’ is a meticulous critical analysis and historical context for current modern medical systems that unlike many scholars and authors, avoids a blanket caricature of historical medicine that sidelines the efficacy of medicinal plants. Instead, it runs through with the warmth of real life herbal medicine patient stories and practice experiences from a doctor who works as a medical herbalist physician, and has been pleasantly surprised by this ancient and still very relevant health profession.”
Review by Anita Ralph MSc (herb med) FNIMH MCPP
Consultant Medical Herbalist, and co-author of Native Healers.
