95. Shamanic Herbalism: Matthew Wood on Sacred Herbalism

The Elder Tree Podcast

Matthew Wood, who by his own admission is a ‘herbalist who did homeopathy because he couldn’t understand herbalism’ is one of the most influential herbalists in the English speaking world. He has brought vitalism and herbal specificity to a whole generation of herbalists, perhaps because of his unique experience of learning herbalism from Native Americans before pursuing any further herbal study. Here, Stephanie Hazel gets to fan-girl at one of her herbal heroes! They discuss Matthew’s new book, “A Shamanic Herbal”, spirit animals, the subtleties of intuition, empathy and imagination, Native American Herbalism, and so much more. It’s our longest interview yet, and we hope you enjoy every minute of it!

Matthew Wood’s new book is available here:

https://www.thenile.com.au/books/matthew-wood/a-shamanic-herbal/9798888500200

The Earthwise Herbal (New World and Old World volumes) are some of the best herbal books around, so if you haven’t discovered Matthew Wood’s work yet, do yourself a favour and pick up a copy!

We highly recommend signing up to the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism mailing list, where you will hear about plenty of high quality free classes, as well as their paid offerings.

Sign up here. https://matthewwoodinstituteofherbalism.com/course/tongue-evaluation

SHOWNOTES:

Link to free tongue diagnosis class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wN4gMYYHmM

We also mentioned:

‘Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine’ by Giovanni Maciocia.

‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’, by Thomas Kuhn in 1970 (download a free pdf here):

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tract/projects/complexity-theory/kuhn-the-structure-of-scien.pdf

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