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Healing incense with wild plantsGRÄFE UND UNZER VERLAG
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Get out of the daily grind and into the pleasure of smoking. Revive an ancient tradition with wild herbs... a book tip!
Like many rites and customs, the millennia-old tradition of incense has something magical about it that is hard to resist. If the hectic everyday life has us also still so firmly in the grasp, if we light a piece of incense coal with the copper tongs over a candle, put on St. John's wort, iris or spruce resin, slowly the smoke begins to rise and the incense unfolds its smell, we arrive quite naturally in the here and now. Smoking decelerates. Smoking grounds. Smoking is refreshment for body, mind and soul. And it can be integrated completely uncomplicatedly into our modern life reality. In the GU guide Heilsames Räuchern mit Wildpflanzen (Healing Incense with Wild Plants), Adolfine Nitschke guides us to recognize 50 native wild plants from the garden, forest and meadow and to find the right herb for every situation.
Fragrances have a direct influence on our well-being. Unlike haptic, acoustic or visual impressions, which must first be processed by the cerebral cortex, odors have a direct effect on the limbic system.
Which plants are suitable for smoking? Where do they grow? How are they processed and what healing powers do they contain? Expertly and entertainingly the author tells much worth knowing about the history of the Räucherns, gives Tipps to the correct collecting, processing and keeping the plants, and betrays like with Räuchern health and well-being in simple and natural way to promote can.
The 50 portraits of native incense plants are sorted according to their effects. Detailed photos help to determine the plants surely. In addition, the reader receives in each case exciting and helpful information on customs, myths, harvest and the detailed effect of incense. Suggestions for various incense rituals around the year as well as a service section with addresses and further literature round off the book.