• The Untold History of Healing

  • Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present
  • By: Wolf-Dieter Storl
  • Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
  • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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The Untold History of Healing

By: Wolf-Dieter Storl
Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
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The Untold History of Healing takes the listener on an exciting, expansive journey of the history of medicine from the Stone Age to modern times, explaining that Western medicine has its true origins in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers rather than in the academic tradition of doctors and pharmacists. Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wolf D. Storl vividly describes the many ways that ancient peoples have used the plants in their immediate environment, along with handed-down knowledge and traditions, to treat the variety of ailments they encountered in daily life.

©2017 Wolf D. Storl (P)2017 North Atlantic Books

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Want to love it but its too hard to listen too

The information in this book is amazing and the author is so knowledgeable but it is very hard to listen too. The book needs a good edit to make it suitable for reading aloud, it doesn't flow well and it is all over the place with lots of notes. The narrator talks way too fast, I some times turn books up to 1.5 speed, I wanted to turn this one down. It probably reads fine in print and is a valuable source of information if you are studying/interested in the history of healing, definitely worth it if you can handle the bad narration. It is not a relaxing listen, you have to be quite alert and actively listening.

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not what I was expecting when it said anthropology

I've only just started it and it seems to be less an anthropology book and more a bashing modern medicine and science kind of book. I regret not finding reviews before wasting a credit on it. I would really like my credit back.

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Fantastic information

Not only is this a history of healing, but a history of shamanism and religion, especially Chrianity, in all its cruel and superstitious forms. Then, the takeover of natural herbalism by pharmaceutical companies and the dehumanizing of medicine by the hospital industry. He also covers the history of human food intake and how processed food is the cause of many of our ailments.

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Great book!

I will definitely be sharing this and rereading! I’m considering buying a hard copy to keep for emergency use.

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Very limited perspective of history

It does not teach but serves an old stale perspective of history which is not even fully related to healing.

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