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Magical herbalism: Alternative Health Dictionary on Magical herbalism

magical herbalism (herbal magic): Branch of herbalism expounded by freelance writer Scott Cunningham (1956-1993), who defined herbs as magical substances, infused with the energy of the Earth.

For the removal of sickness, Cunningham recommended a procedure that involves digging a hole, dropping into it a bean for every sickness, and saying something like: As this bean decays, so my sickness will go away. Magical herbalism encompasses clairvoyant diagnosis, absent healing, and the use of amulets.

Magical herbalism: Alternative Health Dictionary on Magical herbalism 2005-04-23

Magical herbalism: Spiritual Dictionary on herbal

herbal: A book containing descriptions of plants and their uses. The first herbals were written in ancient Greece. Most herbals included magical as well as medicinal information. Such books were copied and recopied for centuries, further spreading magical herbal lore.

(See also: herbal, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Healer

A healer is someone who purports to aid recovery from ill health. Some practitioners of alternative health practices seek to restrict the term to themselves, claiming they work with the natural recuperative self-healing properties of the body, which they term vitalism. They assert that other approaches work against the body's own healing abilities. Healer - Other meanings. In the fantasy genre, a healer is a character with healing powers, usually magical involving the laying-on of hand ...

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Healer - Other meanings

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Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Elixir

Elixir originally comes from exir (اکسیر) in Persian. Exir first entered to Arabic as alexir (الاکسیر) and then transformed to Elixir in English. Elixir has several meanings: In alchemy, an elixir was a substance believed to be able to change base metals into gold. Other properties were also attributed to such elixirs, such as increasing human longevity. The Philosopher's stone and the elixir vitae overlap in some traditions. Elixir vitae (elixir of life) was given to a ...

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Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Charmer

Charmers were English practitioners of a specific kind of folk magic, specialising in supernatural healing. Other folk magic traditions include those of the cunning folk, the toad doctors and the girdle-measurers. The charming tradition is quite distinct from others and is based either on the charmer's possession of inherent healing ability by 'laying on of hands', ownership of an object that had healing properties or possession of a charm or charms in verse, typically deriving from Biblical sources genuine or apocryphal. The latter is the most ...

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Charmer - Charmers and Witchcraft

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Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also known simply as Chinese medicine (Chinese: 中醫學, zhōngyī xué, or 中药学, zhōngyaò xué) is the name commonly given to a range of traditional medical practices used in China that have developed over the course of several thousand years of history. It is also regarded as an instance of oriental medicine, a term which may include other traditional Asian medical systems such as Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, and Mongolian medicine. Chinese medicine principally employs a method ...

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Traditional Chinese medicine - Diagnostic techniques

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Natural health

In alternative medicine, natural health is an eclectic self-care system of "natural therapies" concerned with building and restoring health and wellness via prevention and healthy lifestyles. Natural health includes herbalism, natural hygiene, naturopathy, and nutripathy and these techniques are sometimes viewed to be useful as complementary therapy to conventional medicine. Natural health - History of Natural Health. Although the term natural health did not become part of common usage until the late ...

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Natural health - History of Natural Health

Natural health - Basic Core Tenets

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Voynich manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written some 600 years ago by an anonymous author in an unidentified alphabet and unintelligible language. Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers — including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame — who all failed to decipher a single word. This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into the Holy Grail of histori ...

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Voynich manuscript - Description

Voynich manuscript - Theories about contents and purpose

Voynich manuscript - Theories about the language

Voynich manuscript - Influence on popular culture

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Sadhu

In Hinduism, sadhu is a common term for a renounced ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (pleasure), artha (wealth and power) and even dharma (duty). The sadhu is solely dedicated to achieving moksha (liberation) through meditation and contemplation of God. Although the term Sadhu has its roots in Hinduism it is also used for followers of other religions, if they live a Sadhu life. The most famous non-hinduist Sadhu was probably the Christian Sadhu S ...

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Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Banisteriopsis caapi

Banisteriopsis caapi, also known as Ayahuasca, Caapi or Yage, is a South American jungle vine of the family Malpighiaceae. It is used to prepare Ayahuasca, a decoction that has a long history of entheogenic uses as a medicine and "plant teacher" among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rainforest. It contains beta-carbolines (which are MAOIs) such as harmine, harmaline, and tetrahydroharmine. Caapi needs sunlight to grow, and most caapi is cultivated by the shamans who use it. According to The C ...

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Banisteriopsis caapi - Types of vine

Banisteriopsis caapi - Legal issues

Banisteriopsis caapi - External link

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Patent medicine

Patent medicine is the term given to various medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were for the most part actually trademarked medicines, not patented. In ancient times, such medicine was called nostrum remedium, "our remedy" in Latin, hence the name "nostrum"; it is a medicine whose efficacy is questionable and whose ingredients are usually kept secret. The name patent medicine has become particularly associated with the sale of drug compounds in the nineteenth century under cover of colourful ...

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Patent medicine - Products no longer sold under medicinal claims

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Religions of the Ancient Near East

The Religions of the Ancient Near East were mostly polytheistic, with some early examples of emerging Henotheism (Akhenaton, early Judaism). Especially the Luwian pantheon exerted a strong influence on Ancient Greece, see Greek Paganism, while the religion of Elam influenced the Zoroastrianism of the Achaemenid empire. Religions of the Ancient Near East - Overview. There were many different cultures in the Ancient Near East with different languages, different cultures, different religions, and differing myt ...

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Religions of the Ancient Near East - Neopagan movements

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Mandrake plant

Mandragora autumnalis Mandragora officinarum Mandragora turcomanica Mandragora caulescens Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). Their roots, because their curious bifurcations cause them to have a semblance to the human figure (male & female), have long been used in magic r ...

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Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Aztec Entheogenic Complex

The ancient Aztecs employed a variety of entheogenic plants and animals within their society. The various species have been identified through their depiction on murals, vases, and other objects. The plants used include ololiuqui (Rivea corymbosa), teonanácatl (Psilocybe spp.), sinicuichi (Heimia salicifolia), toloatzin (Datura spp.), peyotl (Lophophora williamsii) and many others. Aztec Entheogenic Complex - History. There are many pieces of archaeological evidence in reference ...

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Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Wicca

Wicca is a Neopagan religious movement found in many different countries, though most commonly in English-speaking cultures. Wicca was first publicised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witch cult, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the Old Religion. The veracity o ...

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Wicca - United States

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Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - Shamanism

Shamanism refers to the traditional healing and religious practices of Northern Asia (Siberia) and Mongolia. By extension, the concept of shamanism has been extended in common language to a range of traditional beliefs and practices that involve the ability to diagnose, cure, and sometimes cause human suffering by traversing the axis mundi and forming a special relationship with, or gaining control over, spirits. Shamans have been credited with the ability to control the weather, divination, the interpretation of dreams, astral projection, and traveling to upper and lower worlds. Shamanistic traditions have exist ...

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Shamanism - Shamanism and New Age

Magical herbalism: Encyclopedia - New Age

The term New Age describes a broad movement of late twentieth century and contemporary Western culture, characterised by an individual eclectic approach to spiritual exploration. Collectively, New Age has some attributes of an emergent religion, but is currently a loose network of spiritual teachers, healers, and seekers. The movement is most visible where its ideas are traded—for example in specialist bookshops, music stores, and New Age fairs. The name "New Age" also refers to the market segment in which its goods and servi ...