The Root in Every Ritual: Sacred Plants in Mythology, Art, and Culture

* Explores the uses of plants across cultures and centuries for healing, protection, transformation, divination, ritual, spiritual awakening, and symbolic art

* Looks at 72 plants traditionally associated with death and the afterlife, heart-healing plants, alchemical herbs, protective plants, and sacred trees

* Draws on ancient texts like Pliny's Historia Naturalis and Dioscorides' De Materia Medica, as well as insights from folklore and religious and spiritual traditions

For as long as humans...