Buffalo Medicine

Buffalo Medicine
Author: April Christofferson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765344199

A wildlife veterinarian working on a vaccine against brucellosis is surprised by the slaughter of buffaloes near Yellowstone National Park -- and by attempts to kill him.

Buffalo Medicine

Buffalo Medicine
Author: Amalendu Chakrabarti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2014
Genre: Buffaloes
ISBN: 9789381226865

Medicine Cards

Medicine Cards
Author: Jamie Sams
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1999-07-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780312204914

The best-selling divination system--over 1,000,000 copies sold worldwide--revised and expanded for the first time.

Buffalo Woman Comes Singing

Buffalo Woman Comes Singing
Author: Brooke Medicine Eagle
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0345534018

"This vibrant book of wonders speaks true and dreams deep. Writng with blazing honesty she tells of her hard-won knowledge of many of the world's spiritual and healing traditions, while hold the Sacred Hoop of Natie Amreicanwisdom. This magnificent teacher becomes for us a new embodiment of White Buffalo Woman." Jean Houston Author of THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED BUFFALO WOMAN COMES SINGING explores fascinating uses of traditions like the Medicine Wheel; healing through ritual action; dreamtime; and the moon lodge -- the woman's place of retreat and visioning. These powerful personal tools integrate ancient wisdom with contemporary experience, as Buffalo Woman calls each spiritual warrior to her own true place in the dance of life.

Sweet Medicine

Sweet Medicine
Author: Peter J. Powell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806130286

"Volume Two records the contemporary Sacred Arrow and Sun Dance ceremonies in their entirety"--P. [4] of cover.

The Last Ghost Dance

The Last Ghost Dance
Author: Brooke Medicine Eagle
Publisher: Wellspring/Ballantine
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2009-03-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307557324

In the celebrated Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, Brooke Medicine Eagle revealed her extraordinary spiritual odyssey from her first guided steps on the medicine path to her ongoing work as one of the most respected Native American teachers of the modern era. Now she shares a groundbreaking approach to spiritual transformation--by revitalizing the powerful ancient ritual The Ghost Dance. Four centuries ago, when European invaders were ruthlessly plundering indigenous cultures, a Paiute tribesman received a vision of hope and resurrection, given by Father Spirit, to help survivors of the onslaught create a beautiful new life in the face of defeat, broken dreams, and death. That vision was celebrated in an ecstatic ghost dance honoring those who had perished. Brooke Medicine Eagle explains how and why we are profoundly connected to The Ghost Dance. As she herself becomes initiated into the "illusion of death" and the wisdom of "heart-centered ascension," she teaches us how to confront our deepest fears, overcome our resistance to change, and renew our lives. Through prayer, music, and dance, Medicine Eagle provides us with the tools to bring about the final fulfillment of this profound ritual--by living in harmony with earth's rhythms, practicing sustainable living, honoring and sharing with all our relations, and freeing ourselves from the burden of possessions and possessiveness. Perceptive, practical, and luminous, The Last Ghost Dance is a call to action, a challenge to raise up from the ashes of our desecrated planet a world that welcomes the full flowering of the spirit--and a new age of abundance, love, and peace.

Healing with Poisons

Healing with Poisons
Author: Yan Liu
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0295749016

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.

Eyes of Wisdom

Eyes of Wisdom
Author: Heyoka Merrifield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2007-07-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1416562370

In this first volume of The White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, author Heyoka Merrifield celebrates the sacredness of nature and the return of a culture hidden by time. Eyes of Wisdom offers a deeply moving narration of life and ceremony on the plains that is richly interwoven with Native American and other mythic traditions. The author draws inspiration from the legend of White Buffalo Woman, his vision quests, and experiences in the Sun Dance lodge.