Healing Hearth: Folk wisdom and the permaculture of recovery.

First, a disclaimer: Is this book a substitute for emergency trauma surgery? If you break your leg or require a heart transplant, will this book replace the hospital? No, of course not. Modern medicine shines in the theatre of trauma and acute crisis. However, for the chronic, the everyday, and the fundamental maintenance of the human organism, the modern medical industrial complex has failed us.

We live in an age where information is infinite, yet wisdom is scarce. We have outsourced our health to experts in white coats in the same way we outsourced our food production to industrial farms and our energy to distant oil fields. The result is a population that is over-medicated, chronically ill, and entirely dependent on a linear system that profits from sickness rather than health. This book is the antidote. It is a tool for those who wish to take the responsibility for their own physical existence back into their own hands. Featuring detailed information almost 100 medicinal plants with identification illustrations, growing information and more.