Table of Contents

• Foreword (Robbie Davis-Floyd)
  
• Preface and Acknowledgments
  
• PART I: THE WEAVING
  
• Chapter 1. The Dream: My Process and Methodology
  
• Chapter 2. The Terrain: Consideration of Botanical Medicine and Holistic Herbalism
  
• Botanical Medicine
  
• Holistic Herbalism
  
• Chapter 3. Recycling Science and Grasping the Ungraspable: Cartesian Thought and Folklore in Herbal Practice
  
• How Does Modern Biomedicine Enhance the Practice of Herbalism?
  
• What Does Herbalism Derive from Folklore?
  
• Observation and Change: The Link Between Science and Folklore
  
• Chapter 4. Free-Form Goes Mainstream: The Debate over Licensure and Professionalization
  
• A Case for Licensure
  
• The Reservations
  
• Chapter 5. The Ecology of Herbalism: The Role of the Herbal Community in the Endangered Plant Crisis
  
• The Role of Industry in the Endangered Plant Crisis
  
• What About Beyond Industry?
  
• Are Plants Really Endangered? An Herbalist’s Perspective
  
• Chapter 6. Sinking Roots, Reaching Branches: Spirituality and Tradition in Modern American Herbalism
  
• The Borrowing of American Herbalism
  
• Giving Back
  
• The Herbalist and the Spirit: Unification
  
• PART II: THE THREADSINTERVIEWS WITH TWENTY AMERICAN HERBALISTS
  
• Chapter 7. Laura Batcha
  
• Green Mountain Herbs (GMH)
  
• Running a Heart-Centered Business on the National Level
  
• The Boom in Natural Products
  
• Current Federal Regulations
  
• Small Companies and Consumer Expectations
  
• The Mission of GMH
  
• Endangered Plants
  
• Certifying Efficacy
  
• Nature of Clinical Trials
  
• Advice for People Wanting to Get into the Herb Business
  
• Educating Consumers About Heart-Centered Herbal Products
  
• Chapter 8. Richo Cech
  
• Factors Contributing to At-Risk Plants
  
• Criteria for Listing on the UpS At-Risk List
  
• Role of Manufacturing in the Endangered-Plant Crisis
  
• Rationale and Effect of Listing Goldenseal on CITESAppendix II
  
• Monopopularizing and the Limited Mainstream Materia Medica
  
• Proactive Approach of UpS
  
• Chapter 9. Ryan Drum
  
• Herbalism and Its Renewed Popularity
  
• Clinical and Lay Herbalists
  
• Education in the Marketplace
  
• Necessity of a Thorough Education for Practitioners
  
• Clinician-Patient Relationship
  
• Usefulness of Science and Folklore
  
• Forging a Relationship with the Allopathic Community
  
• Offering Herbs When Antibiotics Are Not Appropriate
  
• Chapter 10. Daniel Gagnon
  
• Holistic Health
  
• The Process Rather Than the Pill
  
• More on Holistic Health
  
• Is the American Public Healthier Today?
  
• Helping the Mainstream Access Herbal Information
  
• Medical Science and Its Interface with Herbalism
  
• Science versus Folklore in Evaluating Herbs
  
• Holistic versus Allopathic Herbalism
  
• Mainstream Access to Holistic Health
  
• Licensure for Herbalists
  
• Education for Herbalists
  
• Endangered Plants, Organic Growing of Herbs, and Diversifying the Mainstream Materia Medica
  
• Chapter 11. Leslie Gardner
  
• Leaving Clinical Practice
  
• Working in Deep Relationship with Plants
  
• Commercialization of Herbs
  
• Why the Herbal Renaissance Is Happening Now
  
• Opening the Mainstream up to Holistic Herbalism
  
• Steps an Herbalist Can Take to Preserve Herbalism
  
• Ritual
  
• Rediscovery of Ritual in America
  
• What Makes Ritual Meaningful?
  
• Rituals That Anyone Can Do
  
• Plant Allies
  
• Education for Herbalists
  
• Benefits of Classroom Learning
  
• Integrating Different Experiences of H

About the Author

Ethan B Russo, Anne Dougherty