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explore the Healing Promise of Plant Medicines in a Global Industry
Ann Armbrecht
hardback
$ 24.95
From tulsi to Curcuma longa , echinacea to elderberry , medicative herbs are big business — but do they fork over on their healing promise — to those who use up them , those who allow for them , and the natural world?“An middle - untier . . . . [ Armbrecht ] challenges ideas of what medicine can be , and how business practices can corrupt , and expand , our notions of flora - based healing . ”—The Boston Globe“So deep honest , earnest , heartful , questioning , and bright . . . . [ The Business of Botanicals ] is an amazing record , that souse in , and takes a deepening look at those places where hoi polloi do n’t often pretend . ”—Rosemary Gladstar , generator ofRosemary Gladstar ’s Medicinal Herbs“For those who lovedBraiding Sweetgrass , this book is a thoroughgoing chance to go deeper into sympathise the complex and co - evolutionary journey of plants and mass . ” — Angela McElwee , former president and CEO of Gaia Herbs
Using herbal medicine to bring around the body is an ancient practice , but in the twenty - first century , it is also a worldwide industry . Yet most consumers roll in the hay very little about where those herbs come from and how they are litigate into the many products that occupy store shelves . InThe Business of Botanicals , source Ann Armbrecht follow their journey from come to shelf , revealing the privileged works of a complicated manufacture , and upraise questions about the honourable and ecological publication of aggregated production of medical specialty derived from these healing flora , many of which are endanger in the wild .
This is the first book to search the interconnected web of the global herb industry and its many stakeholders , and is an invaluable resource for conscious consumers who want to better understand the social and environmental impacts of the products they corrupt . “Armbrecht masterfully manage the challenge and complexity of her source textile . . . [ She ] is a spirited narrator . . . [ and ] pose all this with the skill of an anthropologist and the heart of an herb doctor . ”—Journal of the American Herbalists Guild
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