Plant Spirit Medicine, The Healing Power of Plants, by Eliot Cowan

Plant Spirit Medicine, The Healing Power of  Plants, by Eliot Cowan. – Although we are well aware of the part that plants play in medicine –such as in quinine and many other remedies originating from plants, this author goes much deeper into the plant/medicine relationship. He has met and worked with healers, “shamans” who are convinced that plants (as everything else in creation) are endowed with a spirit.  It is the spirit of the plants that they contact, by means of dreams and other methods. These healers have learned ancient plant/medicine lore from indigenous tribes in western North America, such as the Raramuri or the Tarahumara and the Lakota, and there is a number of them who are still healing with this method. Cowan has spoken with them, learned about plant spirit medicine, and witnessed dramatic cures, both physical and spiritual.

The first-hand accounts that Cowan gives of speaking with a number of these shamans, witnessing their contacts with the spirits of plants and the unmistakable cures that result are so foreign to our experience that it seems incredible.  But reading the many glowing reviews of doctors and others in the field of medicine praising Cowan’s discovery of the ancient practice of plant spirit medicine as a wonderful and spiritual approach to holistic healing and  referring to Plant Spirit Medicine as “A trailblazing book that explores an old way of healing through the spirit of plants” casts it in a more favorable and authentic light.  Eliot Cowan is even called “the American healer.”  I invite you to read this remarkable book.