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Stephen Harrod Buhner

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Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth poet and the award-winning author of ten books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He comes from a long line of healers including Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. The greatest influence on his work, however, has been his great-grandfather C.G. Harrod who primarily used botanical medicines, also in rural Indiana, when he began his work as a physician in 1911.

Stephen's work has appeared or been profiled in publications throughout North America and Europe including Common Boundary, Apotheosis, Shaman's Drum, The New Yor...more

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Books by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Average rating: 4.38 · 537 ratings · 97 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner, Natl Book Network Siris Books 4.35 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth 4.59 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature 4.33 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives For Treating Drug Resistant Bacteria by Stephen Harrod Buhner, James A. Duke (Foreword) 4.35 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism 4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Healing Lyme: Natural Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Herbs for Hepatitis C and the Liver 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Sacred Plant Medicine 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal

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“In this process of unlearning, in the process of feeling and hearing the plants again, one comes to realize many things. And of these things, perhaps stronger than the others, one feels the pain of the Earth. It is not possible to escape it.
One of the most powerful experiences I had of this was the year when I traveled to the Florida panhandle. One day Trishuwa and I decided to go out and make relationship with the plants and offer prayer to them. The place we chose appeared quite lush, with huge trees and thick undergrowth. But as we sat there, a strong anger came from the land and the trees. They had little use for us and told us so in strong language. We spoke with them for a long time and did not cower away from their rage and eventually, as we received their pain and anger, they calmed down a little. They told us that we could do our ceremonies if we wished and that they appreciated the thought but that it would do no good. It was too late for that place, it could not be helped, the land would take its revenge for the damage done to it and nothing would stop it. I wondered then how everyone who lived in the area could just go on with their daily lives when this communication from all the local living things was crying out so loudly. I wondered if anyone else felt this rage and anger.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism

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