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Hildegard of Bingen's medicine / Wighard Strehlow & Gottfried Hertzka ; translated from the German by Karin Strehlow.

Title
Hildegard of Bingen's medicine / Wighard Strehlow & Gottfried Hertzka ; translated from the German by Karin Strehlow.
Author
Strehlow, Wighard, 1939-
Publication
Santa Fe, N.M. : Bear & Co., c1988.

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Additional Authors
Hertzka, Gottfried, 1913-1997
Description
xxviii, 161 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Folk wisdom series
Uniform Title
Folk wisdom series
Subject
  • Hildegard
  • Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179
  • Herbal Medicine
  • History, Medieval
  • Healers > Germany > Biography
  • Homeopathy
  • Medicine, Medieval
  • Women mystics > Germany > Biography
  • History of Medicine
  • Germany
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword by David Frawley -- Hildegard's medicine: the healing art of the future -- Eyes: the windows to the soul -- Ears: liver metabolism & hearing -- Teeth: a beautiful smile -- Colds & flu & the English geranium -- Skin: cuts, bites & burns -- Heart: galangal & jasper -- Digestion & the wonder food, spelt -- Diet: you are what you eat -- Liver: black bile & depression -- Gall bladder: jaundice & melancholy -- Nerves: quenched wine & chalcedony -- Dreams: messengers of the soul -- Rheumatism: cures with gold & quince -- Cancer: life gone wild -- Fasting: creating your own spirituality -- Saint Hildegard & her medicine.
ISBN
0939680440 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^87027306^
OCLC
  • 16805673
  • SCSB-11438797
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library