Pip Waller

Step into a lushly illustrated guide to herbal wisdom, natural remedies, and seasonal living. From soothing balms and herbal teas to botanical beauty treatments and fragrant infusions, Home Herbalist offers time-tested recipes to nurture your body, mind, and home. Each page blends practical how-tos with timeless plant lore, empowering you to craft your own herbal creations and deepen your connection with nature. Perfect for gardeners, foragers, green witches, and nature lovers, this book is your companion to seasonal wellness and everyday plant magic. Whether you’re seeking natural health solutions, mindful rituals, or simply a more harmonious way of living, Home Herbalist brings the healing power of the garden into your hands. Featuring wisdom from herbalists across the globe, this handbook offers recipes that range from quick, beginner-friendly remedies to more advanced preparations, such as: Green cleaning products, from floor wax to stain removers First aid, such as anti-nausea drops and bruise ointment Herbal pharmacy, from throat lozenges to hangover cures Beauty, balms, and personal care Nutritional supplements and detoxes Food and drink And more! Bound in a beautifully designed format that’s as giftable as it is useful, this volume celebrates the art and tradition of herbal living. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just starting your herbal journey, you’ll find everything you need to create a healthier, nontoxic, and natural home.

An eloquent guide to embarking on the journey of exploring the incredible healing power of plants. Just as their bodies are able to heal our bodies, as evidenced by the many successes of herbal medicine, so their spirit - or energy - offers much needed help to our spirits. This book is specifically about five-element based plant spirit medicine as developed by renowned international healer and teacher Eliot Cowan. Pip and Lucy trained with Eliot and have been practising the medicine since 2005. They see Plant Spirit Medicine as a very much needed medicine for our time and wanted to offer an accessible way into understanding its power and potential. Story telling offers that way. The book speaks in many voices, and it is a combination of narrative and description by the authors, as well as stories offered by colleagues, teachers, patients and students. The theme of the journey is used throughout: the journey of life which presents us with the challenges and struggles that call us toward the healing offered by deep nature connection; the journey of the seasons which encapsulates five-element understanding; journeys of personal healing and growth experienced from receiving the medicine; the shamanic dream journey in which humans can meet and interact with plant spirits directly through our imagination and beyond. Ultimately, it enlightens the reader on the journey a person must undertake to become a healer and the part plant spirit medicine offers to play in the journey of our societies as we navigate this time of great imbalance and change, returning to a time when the songs and stories of the earth are once more able to be heard.

This user-friendly guide gives straightforward and practical advice to anyone who wants a holistic approach to taking care of themselves naturally. Following the traditional framework of an anatomy book that explains each body system chapter-by-chapter, Pip Waller--an experienced practitioner and teacher--provides fundamental information and tips about exercise, diet, supplements, understanding and caring for your emotional and mental health, naturopathic principles from various traditions, and simple yet effective ways of working with spiritual energy. Based on the premise that an underlying vital force--which needs to be in balance for health to be fully present--animates all life, this book is designed to support and promote our inherent tendency toward wholeness and equilibrium. Each chapter includes fun recipes to enhance health and well-being.

Complementary and alternative approaches to health and medicine have become increasingly widespread as the limits of conventional treatments become more apparent. Holistic Anatomy presents an authoritative study of anatomy, physiology, and pathology but expands the discussion by connecting the science of the body to a variety of alternative modalities to explore how human beings exist within--and interact with--their environment, and how they experience existence in emotional and spiritual terms. Basic scientific terminology and detailed descriptions are interwoven with informal, sometimes humorous observations, facts, and ideas about life. The mechanisms, structure, and functions of the body are explored, along with how they relate to spiritual and energetic paradigms, emotions, and ecological principles. The first half of the book covers basic anatomy and physiology, describing each major system of the body and how they interrelate. This part includes a thoughtful discussion of aging and the dying process. The second half focuses on models of health and disease, both traditional and holistic. Topics include western pathology, emotional health, five element medicine, and the spiritual cause for disease.