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Humoral HerbalI mentioned a week ago that I'd finally finished excavating myself from a stack of necessary reading for a couple of research projects, and could finally get to the stack of books I've received over the last year or so.  Looking out over the year ahead, I can see some other research projects looming up, but in the meantime I can still catch my breath, read for pleasure, and post here about volumes I particularly liked.

The image to the left is the cover of one of these. The Humoral Herbal by Stephen Taylor is the most comprehensive and useful effort I've seen so far to revive the Western equivalent of Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine -- the humoral medicine that uses the four elements as basic categories and principles, with the planets of astrology as a second set. This volume covers the history, philosophy, and practice of Western humoral medicine, explores traditional methods of diagnosis, and gives extensive details (including elemental and planetary correspondences) for fifty herbs commonly used in Western traditional and alternative practice.

It really is a tour de force. I recommend it especially for readers of my book The Celtic Golden Dawn who are intrigued by the discussion of elemental herbalism in that work, but it's worth attention from anybody who's interested in Western alternative medicine or in ways of healing that don't depend on access to an increasingly problematic industrial system. Copies can be purchased straight from the publisher here.

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Herbary Notebook 2019A few days ago I received this very attractive diary and notebook by Dafydd Monks from Aeon Books, the publisher that's bringing out a lot of my old occult writings (and some new ones as well). It's got gorgeous photos and a wide assortment of easy-to-use herbal recipes inside. Definitely a Druid sort of thing -- and so it's probably not an accident that the publisher's graciously offered it at a 25% discount to my readers -- oh, and free shipping worldwide, in case that's an incentive. (The free shipping worldwide is Aeon Books' standard policy, I'm pleased to say.)

If you're interested, visit the publisher's website at http://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/the-herbary-notebook-2019/94002/ to place an order, and enter the discount code HERBDIARY2019 during the checkout process on the website. You're welcome. ;-)
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