This perennial best-seller explores ancient ways of healing that combines medical philosophies of China, Tibet, India and West Africa with Shamanic techniques using plant spirits.Presented in three sections, Plant Spirit Medicine opens with Cowan's personal experiences working with herbs and Indian shamans. Part Two explores the Chinese medical tradition of the Five Elements. Each chapter closes with a questionnaire that allows readers to examine their relationship with the qualities associated with each element. In Part Three five shamans share their own ways of relating to the spirit power of plants..the perfect shaman for the disillusioned era in which we live. Cowan's the kind of mystic we believe-unflinchingly honest. -IntuitionCowan's work-and the plant world-deserve people's attention. -Natural Health