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Of People and Plants: The Autobiography of Europe's Most Celebrated Healer
Of People and Plants
is a combination of colorful anecdotes from Messeque's life and detailed information about the use of specific plants in treating a wide variety of ailments. Its comprehensive appendices describe Messeque's preparations for the principal chronic diseases and provide recommendations for the seasonal and nutritional use of plants for optimal health. Inst
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Paperback
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336 pages
Published
October 1st 1991
by Healing Arts Press
(first published 1970)
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This autobiography of the famous phytotherapist or "healer" as he termed himself, is one of the most readable books I've encountered for a long time.
Mességué recalls his boyhood years in the Gers, where his nature-loving father taught him everything he knew about plants - the optimal times to pick them, how to prepare them, and last but not least how to use them, and which ones to use, to cure people of their specific infirmities.
From an early age - at school - the boy Maurice himself began to m ...more
Mességué recalls his boyhood years in the Gers, where his nature-loving father taught him everything he knew about plants - the optimal times to pick them, how to prepare them, and last but not least how to use them, and which ones to use, to cure people of their specific infirmities.
From an early age - at school - the boy Maurice himself began to m ...more
This was extremely readable. It is not only an inspiring book about the power of plants for healing but also a wonderfully evocative account of the time and place in which Maurice Mességué grew up and practiced his art and the people (many of them quite famous in their time) whom he treated. I was, however, left wondering if the author was a man with a gift for healing that was simply mediated through plants or whether it was really his meticulous and judicious preparation and use of the plants
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The autobiography of world renowned French herbalist Maurice Mességué was a delightful read. Check out my full review on BookLikes
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I LOVED this book. It was funny and interesting and a great and accessible intro to herbalism. Even if you're not into herbs it's still an interesting story about a man following his passion.
Fascinating autobiography of a French herbalist.
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“Peasants seldom write letters, and for my father the arrival of a letter was an important ceremony that entailed quite a ritual: the glass of wine for the postman, the close scrutiny of his name on the envelope—mistakes can happen, and you must never open a letter that isn’t addressed to you—and then the blade of the knife carefully inserted to liberate whatever the fates had in store.”
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“Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.”
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