The Practicing Herbalist
Meeting With Clients - Reading the Body
By: Margi Flint
Written by one of the most experienced Clinical Herbalists of our day.
A book intended to teach other Clinical Herbalists.
But valuable information for all.
Margi Flint has been studying and teaching herbs since the 80's.
As the original herbalists of the Western world were actually considered doctors, Margi was part of the first wave of modern herbalists to begin practicing as a 'non-doctor herbal practitioner'.
Aka: Clinical Herbalist, as we know it today.
This book aims to answer questions like:
What herbs will help replenish the body, mind, and soul so that it may heal with symptoms like:
Wrinkles in the forehead.
White dots on the fingernails.
A 'MAP' tongue.
Stiff neck.
And which organs connect to which symptoms, further indicating the direction of herbal and other natural therapies.
I don't agree with everything she writes in terms of diet, as my experiences have lead me to different conclusions, including the fact that every body reacts differently to every food.
But she admits in the beginning of the book that this may be the case.
Working with and teaching herbs, food, and the body is a 'Practice'.
Gaining good health is also a practice.
It should be lifelong for each of us, herbalist or not.
As I always say, take everything in with a grain of salt. Try it on for size. And discard what doesn't apply to your own personal experience. But don't teach or preach against the other ways either.
At least that's my intention. As I've seen, experienced, worked with, and witnessed enough to know there can almost no hard rules to any of this thing called life.
Only indicators.
This book is chockful of information.
It contains so many grains of salt, you're sure to find, or at least truly begin, your own path of healing within its pages,
Read it. Try the ideas on for size. And try and enjoy the process.
And the experience.
The adventure.
Because this book is, all 488 pages of it, quite an adventure.
Happy reading!
