Karl Elliot-Gough

Seven Plants to Save the World

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Produktbeschreibung

A revolutionary manual of herbal medicine which, using only seven key plants, promises to guide and sustain humanity by completing the cycle of earth wisdom

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aeon Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781801521628
• ISBN-10: 180152162X
• Artikelnr.: 70955982

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
   Human Plants
   The diseases of civilization
   Oikonomia
   Disconnection
NETTLE
   Humble pie
   It's a family affair
   Nettle history, ethnobotany and folklore
   "It's got more chi, man!"
   A whole heap of benefits
   Side effects
   Tea terrorists and vultures
   Equipoise (ek-wuh-poiz)
   "Who's the daddy?"
   A bit more ChAT
   Phenomenal phenols
   The first epidemiological study
   Nettles for textiles
   What's wrong with cotton?
   The nettle industrial revolution
   Get foraging
   Recipes
   Nettle neglect 
DANDELION
The best things in life are free
Etymologicum
What's in a name?
Chronological cappers
When folklore was the law
Dawn of the lawn
The Big C
Duelling with the diuretics
Warning!
Nutrients
Phreaky phytonutrients
The inconvenient truth
More than an opinion
Taraxagum
Dandelions are proper cool
Foraging/harvesting
Culinary dandelions
Final word 
YARROW
  Armageddon
  Them Greeks, they knew a thing or two
  History and names
  Ethnobotanical
  Traditional
  "It's all about the phytonutrients, darling!"
  Axis of Evil leading the way (again) 
  Here's more countries' opinions
  OTC cash registers on fire
  Aedes albopictus
  Radiation
  Divination
  "Need ya aura cleansing or chakras aligned, Mister?"
  Anything else?
  It can't all be good, can it?
  Foraging, growing and culinary curios
  Summation 
PLANTAIN
   Canine crisis
   The People will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens
long enough to notice ...
   Species specific
   Names
   First Nation peoples loved them
   History
   Traditional uses
   Firm scientific credentials
   Forbidden knowledge
   Psyllium (silly om)
   Farmers need to become the guardians of the soil
CANNABIS
   Human Plant numero uno?
   Mary Jane, what's in the name?
   "Psst ... you wanna buy sum smoke?"
   Hamp or hemp
   Cannabis history, BC
   AD
   Into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries  
   Building a better world - Hempcrete
   Fabric
   Paper production
   The decorticator
   Plastic, bio-plastic and oil
   Hempire
   The seed - health
   CBD
   Some science
   Side effects
   Smacked out or stoned?
   Wrapping it up 
HAWTHORN
   Barbs of wisdom
   Hawthorn (Crataegus sp.)
   Botanical
   Folk and ethnographic
   Bubbling up from the depths of time
   Jesus Christ and the soul of London
   Vibrations, green men, fairies and pixilated superstitions
   Traditional uses
   Heart disease
   Global science
   Fishy science with an industrial whiff
   Eating
   Pleaching and a smeuse
   Enclosure
   It's not 'just' the land that got stolen/reappropriated
BLACKBERRY
   Botanically and plantality
   Challenging etymology
   So little folklore, so much Devil's piss
   History, ethnobotanic and traditional uses
   Any problems?
   The biggest threat to the future of all Gaia's organisms
   Last scientific studies to digest
   Can't get away from those polyphenols
   The B17 story
   Foraging and Shinrin-Yoku
   Blackberry cultivation
   Yum!
SOLUTIONAL SUMMATION
 SYSTEMIC REFORMATION
1. Health system
   An end to the diseases of civilization
   Medicine
1. Economic system
   What is money?
   Crypto or Green currency?
   Show us the money
   A Green-backed economy
2. Industrial system
   Building
   Fabrics
   Transport
   Petroleum
3. Agricultural system
   The great agricultural myth
   PermaLife 1:0
   A nation is only as healthy as the soil it stands upon
   Permaculture
   10 acres with planning consent
   How to get the land ... the peasants are revolting
   Forest charter, allotments and PCCs
   Land prices and subsidies
   Pharmas to farmers
4. Cultural system
   Obscenity law
   The Co-operator
   Wetiko and follow the money
   Socialism?
   Take a bow, the Seven Plants   
APPENDIX
1. Nutritional profiles
2. Pesticide sprayed since 1950
3. Pollution
4. GDPs vs corporation revenues
5. Humans
6. Historical pandemics
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX