Secret Medicines From You Garden: Plants for Healing, Spirituality, and Magic

Aired Sunday, 6 March 2016, 2:00 PM ET

Allayah presents to you, the trailblazing author, Ellen Evert Hopman. As spring approaches in the northern hemisphere. Our thoughts are drawn to the renewal of all plant consciousness and their healing properties. We will have a chance to hear her journey and explore her newest book release, Secret Medicines From You Garden: Plants for Healing, Spirituality, and Magic.

A guided exploration of herbal lore and healing plants found in yards, forests, meadows, and hedgerows. Draws on traditional knowledge and remedies from around the world, including Native American, Celtic, and Egyptian traditions. Provides simple recipes to safely make herbal remedies from local plants and honey for first aid, immune support, and treatment of common ailments.

Explains how to work with plant spirits, herbal astrology, and Animal Spirit Medicine. Weaving together ancient wisdom, mystical folklore, and modern plant research, master herbalist Ellen Evert Hopman explores the many uses of flowers, trees, common weeds, and ornamental plants for food, medicine, spiritual growth, and magical rituals. She reveals the herbal lore surrounding each plant, drawing on traditional knowledge and remedies from around the world, including Native American, Celtic, and Egyptian traditions. She includes recipes throughout so you can make medicines from wild and domesticated plants easily found in yards, forests, meadows, and hedgerows, and she discusses what to plant to ensure you have leaves, berries, and flowers all year.

The author reveals how to quickly intuit an unknown plant’s properties using the signatures of plants–universal indications and contraindications based on the form, color, and location of a plant. She includes an in-depth section on honey and Bee Medicine, allowing you to appreciate the labors of these plant-dependent insects. Exploring the magical role of herbs in ancient ritual, Hopman provides recipes for Egyptian temple incense and their sacred medicine known as Kyphi or Kaphet, used to purify the body, banish insomnia, and promote vivid dreaming. She explores shamanic Plant Spirit and Animal Spirit Medicine as well as herbal astrology. She also explains the triangle formula-making system of her herbal mentor William LeSassier to help you develop custom herbal remedies tailored to a person’s unique strengths and weaknesses.

Showing how to easily incorporate wild plants into your life to receive their healing benefits throughout the seasons, Hopman reveals the power of the bounty that Mother Nature has provided right at our doorstep.

About the Author Ellen Evert Hopman

Ellen Evert Hopman has been a teacher of herbalism since 1983 and is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. A member of the Grey Council of Mages and Sages and a former professor at the Grey School of Wizardry, she has presented at schools and workshops across the United States and Europe. A Druidic initiate since 1984, she is a founding member of The Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile), a Bard of the Gorsedd of Caer Abiri, and a Druidess of the Druid Clan of Dana. A former vice president of The Henge of Keltria, she is the author of “A Druid’s Herbal of Sacred Tree Medicine; A Druid s Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year”; “Walking the World in Wonder”; “Being a Pagan”;” Tree Medicine”, “Tree Magic”; and “Priestess of the Forest”. She lives in Massachusetts.