Women healers of the world

By Holly Bellebuono

Subjects: Biography, Women, biography, Herbs, therapeutic use, Women healers, Dictionaries, Medicinal plants, Healers

Description: "The recent trend toward holistic living has heightened our national fascination with herbal remedies and less conventional therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, aromatherapy, and ethnobotany. Women Healers of the World shares with readers an extraordinary variety of healing plants from around the world that have inspired today's 'alternative' medicine, as well as the stories, challenges, and triumphs of remarkable women healers from the past and present--all of whom promote the use of medicinal herbs"--Back cover.