Healing Secrets of the Native Americans: Herbs, Remedies, and Practices that Restore the Body, Refresh the Mind, and Rebuild the Spirit

Porter Shimer (Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers)

From this clear, reliable, and beautifully packaged book, learn how Native Americans have used the flora and fauna of nature to heal the mind, the body, and the spirit. Discover how Native American indigenous traditions use plants, flowers, herbs, heat, movement, sound, visualization, and spirituality to heal dozens of everyday ailments and illnesses - from back pain to insect bites to flu and sore throat and much more.

Broken into sections, the book covers such topics as "The Healing Spirit" (including dream therapy, spirituality, and prayer), "The Native American Spa" (healing with heat, massage, sound and movement, and nutrition), "The Native American Pharmacy" (including more than 40 herbs and plants, how to obtain them, and how to use them), plus remedies for more than 40 ailments from acne to wrinkles.

Not written as an academic treatise, this book rather is a nice overview of some of the traditional healing practices of the Native American peoples. Anyone interested in finding alternative solutions to today's Doctor and pharmaceutical heavy medical establishment could benefit from this book. The Earth provides a lot of amazing resources for the human body; Native Americans have been aware of this for thousands of years, and now so can others.

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