Linda BatesThe Medicine Woman
A Path of Power and Healing with Love and Plants
Linda Bates was a traditional western Herbalist trained by Dorothy Hall and the women of her family. Since 1993 she worked as a herbalist, organically growing her herbs in the Blue Mountains, making tinctures & creams with them, and teaching others how to do the same.
Foreward
Introduction
Section One - The Village Herbalist
Chapter one - Finding my path
Chapter two - Becoming the Village Herbalist
Chapter three - Friday October 15th 2003
Chapter four - Two weeks in Intensive Care
Chapter five - A Vicious Assault
Chapter six - Herbs and Hearts
Chapter seven - Can you save my leg
Chapter eight - No more surgery needed
Chapter nine - The doctors husband
Chapter ten - My brain is eating my pituitary gland
Section Two - Finding the Shaman
Chapter 1 The Earth called me
Chapter 2 Findhorn and Shamanic work
Chapter 3 Travelling to Findhorn
Chapter 4 The train to Scotland
Chapter 5 The original quest
Chapter 6 Flowers: A gift of love from the Earth
Chapter 7 Memories in the land
Chapter 8 My chamomile and lavender cloak
Section Three - The Art of Prescribing, Mixing, and Dosing with Herbal
Tinctures
Chapter 1 How to start
Chapter 2 In the consultation room
Chapter 3 Manufacturing processes
Chapter 4 Who tells you what doses to use
Chapter 5 The Influence of the British Herbal Pharmacopaeia
Chapter 6 Case studies
Chapter 7 Topical applications
