Ayurvedic Healing

Another book recommendation for anyone interested in Ayurveda...

Ayurvedic Healing, A comprehensive Guide by David Frawley.

I've been collecting books on Ayurveda, mostly cookbooks, and have found a few gems, but I think as far as healing goes, this one is the best.  It is really clear, easy to read and well organized.  It addresses the treatment of specific ailments, and the philosophy behind it.  Another book I want to share with everyone I meet!

Blessings,

Heather

Vedic Hymn to the Plants

Plants, which as receptacles of light were born three ages before the Gods, I honor your myriad colors and your seven hundred natures.

A hundred, oh Mothers, are your natures and a thousand are your growths.  May you of a hundred powers make whole what has been hurt.

Plants, as Mothers and Goddesses, I address you.  May I gain energy, light, and sustenance, your soul, you who are a conscious being.

Where the herbs are gathered together like kings in an assembly, there the doctor is called a sage, who destroys evil, and averts disease.

As they fell from Heaven, the plants said, "The living soul we pervade, that man will suffer no harm."

The herbs that are in the kingdom of the Moon, manifold with a hundred eyes, I take this plant as the best of them, for the fulfillment of wishes as peace to the heart.

Plants that are queens of the Soma, spread over all the Earth, generated by the Lord of Prayer, may your energy combine within this herb.

Rig Veda X.97