Author: John Heinerman Publisher: ISBN: 9780139755255 Category : Healing Languages : en Pages : 0
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Alphabetical presentation of herbs & spices, with information on how they can be used to reverse illness & restore vitality, includes all-natural remedies for over 100 health conditions, case histories, & recommendations for using the remedies most effectively.
Author: Carlos B. Vega Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786482087 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of Maria de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; Maria de Penalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quiros, first and only woman admiral of the Spanish navy; and mestizo leaders Francisca Pizarro and Leonor de Alvarado. Also covered are more than 40 other women of the same period--Spanish, Indian, and black--who held a wide variety of leadership positions. The book draws its information from the writings of respected early historians as well as historical documents from libraries and archives in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Cortes, Pizarro, Alvarado, todos ellos hombres conocidos y famosos. Pero y las mujeres? Si bien fue el hombre el que mayormente cargo sobre sus hombros la empresa conquistadora, muchas fueron las mujeres que tambien formaron parte de tal epopeya. Sin embargo, la historia les paso por encima y las relego al triste olvido. Esta obra se empena en hacerles justicia historica a estas mujeres, destacando sus vidas y hazanas sobre todo a ocho de ellas, quizas las mas conocidas, pero no las unicas. Fueron mujeres excepcionales, resolutas, integras, juiciosas, prontas a echar un pie adelante cuando las circunstancias asi lo exigieron, pero, vale recalcar, sin renunciar en ningun momento a sus dotes de madres y esposas. De las ocho mujeres, seis fueron espanolas y dos indigenas, incluyendose, ademas, a unas cuarenta mas aunque en menos detalle. La obra rebosa humanidad y sentido historico y esta escrita en un lenguaje pulcro y sencillo, al alcance de todo tipo de lector. Sus fuentes son rigurosamente historicas y fidedignas, fruto de las mas excelsas plumas a ambos lados del Atlantico y pertenecientes a todas las epocas, incluyendo, claro esta, a los primitivos cronistas de Indias.
Author: Efraín Rodríguez Malavé Publisher: La Editorial, UPR ISBN: 9780847703654 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 248
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"A thorough guide providing valuable information culled from scientific, medical and professional studies, as well as the author's own experience as a naturopath."
Author: Helen Farmer-Knowles Publisher: Godsfield Press ISBN: 9781841813905 Category : Naturopathy Languages : en Pages : 400
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Plants can provide healing in many different ways: directly through their pharmacological actions as medicinal herbs, energetically through the vibrations of flower essences and tree energies, and spiritually through the inspiration they offer. Exploring over 100 of these incredible plants - from key medicinal herbs such as St John's wort, sage and chamomile to edible healing plants such as grapes and blueberries - The Healing Plants Bible provides a comprehensive guide to their history of usage, therapeutic properties and healing applications. Featuring guidance on seasonal availability, advice on the use of herbal teas, tinctures and flower essences for common ailments, and including the latest research findings, this book is an essential reference guide to plants from all over the world.
Author: Michael Castleman Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553569880 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 657
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The Healing Herbs provides the information you need to use the earth's wonderful bounty of medicinal plants confidently, effectively, and above all, safely. It examines 100 of the most widely used, most easily available, most familiar, and most fascinating medicinal plants, tracing their history, folklore, and healing properties, and summarizing the latest scientific research on their many benefits. The Healing Herbs also explains where to find the herbs, how to take them, store and prepare them, even how to grow them. The Healing Herbs also includes an easy-to-use A-to-Z herb encyclopedia, plus a section titled Prevention and Treatment: A Fast-action Guide to Using the Healing Herbs, including: Conditions--from ear infection to stress, A-to-Z conditions and the herbs you can use to treat and prevent specific symptoms and diseases; Healing Actions--from antibiotic to sedative, an A-to-Z list of medicinal uses with herbs as a natural alternative to certain medicines; Other Uses--some unusual uses for the healing herbs, for example as insect repellent or memory improvement. Both Conditions and Healing Actions include special precautions about certain herbs, whether in preparation, long-term use, or short-term effects.
Author: Ana Kondic Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806152370 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 217
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South Eastern Huastec, a Mayan language from Mexico, has never before been written down. Although the master storytellers of the language are long gone, today’s older generations preserve the vast knowledge of their culture in speech. That spoken heritage in South Eastern Huastec—ranging from traditional house-building techniques to herbal remedies and funerary practices—is gathered here and transcribed for the first time. Collected and recorded by Ana Kondic in the village of San Francisco Chontla in La Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz, Mexico, between 2007 and 2011, and translated into English and Spanish, the accounts in this landmark trilingual collection provide a rare opening into South Eastern Huastec traditions, oral literature, and daily life. Kondic divides South Eastern Huastec Narratives into five thematic sections: traditional practices, contemporary life, stories, songs, and customary foodways. Within these categories, eighteen Huastec narrators describe local beliefs, religion, rituals, and cosmology as observed in cleansing ceremonies and celebrations. They detail building methods and traditional craftsmanship, the care of children, daily routines, and use of the South Eastern Huastec language itself. They recount stories and legends—of killer coyotes, drunken horsemen, and encounters with death—and explain the preparation of tamales, coffee, and hand-pressed tortillas. Wherever possible, Kondic retains in her transcriptions the unique characteristics of each speaker’s voice—the self-corrections, repetitions, and pauses. Her morphological analysis of South Eastern Huastec will help experts understand the language more deeply. An accompanying audio-video DVD-ROM allows readers the rare chance to hear and see these narrators tell their stories in their own language. Of the approximately 100,000 people who speak the Huastec language, only about 12,000 use the South Eastern variety presented here. As the only book recording and analyzing this endangered language, this collection of narratives is a crucial document for preserving the South Eastern Huastec language, and the remarkable culture it conveys. The book includes a CD-ROM with both audio and video tracks.
Author: Gabriela Fonseca, Editorial Ink Publisher: Editorial Ink ISBN: 6079254654 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
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Dos muñecas, dos hermanas y una infancia compartida por necesidad y no por los lazos afectivos a que obliga la familia, son el pretexto para que Gabriela Fonseca nos introduzca a un mundo fantástico de amor en el mar y de tristeza y nostalgia en la tierra. Estas hermanas, dueñas de una recia personalidad, se ven completamente desbordadas cuando el amor llega a sus vidas dejando al desnudo sus almas.
Author: Rafael D. Mota Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1483619877 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 185
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Lanza de Amor is book without metric, that so called white poems or free poems. Lanza de Amor try those white poems in the terms of love. However in the book are also poems dedicated to the mother earth that I so called them La tierra revolucionaria inspired from individuals conversation in the parking lot at 3:00 AM of very early morning. So these poems could be inspirational for crates love songs and even the poems dedicated to earth had been also this poetic mission. For furthermore this white poems are the work of some applied experience in anyway of the follow up explained.
Author: Reese Dubin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735202109 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 481
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Como lo prueba el confunto de investigaciones científicas en constante aumento, los remedios populares de los pueblos de la antigüedad muestran con frecuencia ser admirablemente eficaces. Esto se observa bien en Milagrosos Alimentos Curativos de la Biblia, el Libro que expone las notables propiendades curativas de muchos alimentos y hierbas descrtios en el Antiguo y Nuevo Testamentos. Esta guía práctica ayuda a encontrar los alimentos bíblicos que curan los malestares comunes--y narra fascinantes historias reales sobre curaciones asombrosas acontecidas en los tiempos bíblicos y en la actualidad. Averigüe las maneras en que médicos y pacientes han usado con éxito estos alimentos y hierbas fáciles de conseguir, para lograr un alivio duradero de enfermedades tan diversas como úlceras en la boca y presión sanguínea elevada, tuberculosis, cáncer y enfermedades del corazón. Descubra los sorprendentes Alimentos bíblicos Curativos, tales como: • La bebida medicinal sagrada que previene los coágulos sanguíneos, alivia el dolor y contribuye a disolver la grasa de las paredes arteriales • La planta "de Moisés" : el profeta la usó ¡y vivó más de un siglo! • Aceites vegetales medicinales que encendieron la Zarza Ardiente • El asombroso poder curativo de un grano bendecido por Jesús • La hoja milagroso de la Última Cena que, cuando ya no haya esperan zas, ayuda a aliviar el dolor y devuelve la fuerza. Este Libro es un tesoro de secretos curativos prácticos e inspiradores, provenientes de una de las fuentes más autorizadas que se pueda imaginar, tales como el uso del vino tinto para eliminar las bacterias y los virus, y las propiendades maravillosas del aceite de oliva para aliviar la artritis y hacer desaparecer las arrugas.
Author: John Heinerman
Author: Edelmira Linares Mazari
Author: Carlos B. Vega
Author: Efraín Rodríguez Malavé
Author: Helen Farmer-Knowles
Author: Michael Castleman
Author: Ana Kondic
Author: Gabriela Fonseca, Editorial Ink
Author: Rafael D. Mota
Author: Reese Dubin