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St. Hildegard’s Garden: Recipes and Remedies for Healing Body and Soul
Meet a Doctor of the Church whose wisdom on health and nutrition will aid you in everything from better digestion and sleep to improved mood, memory, and pain relief.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a mystic and scholar who chronicled more than six hundred pages of visions, wrote cantatas, and even devised her own language. She authored The Book of Divine Works, Causes and Cures, and Scivias and corresponded with the greatest intellectuals, theologians, and royals of her time.
As a pioneer of European phytotherapy, Hildegard described and cataloged hundreds of ingredients from plant, mineral, and animal origins. Her recipes, remedies, nutritional advice, and holistic view of the human being are as valued and appreciated today as when she developed them nearly a thousand years ago.
This book faithfully applies Hildegard’s pioneering thought to everyday living in our time. In these potent pages, you will find the medicinal properties of essential herbs as well as how to identify, utilize, and cultivate them. You will also
“Hildegard’s elixir” for curing common ailmentsWays to include delicious herbs in your dinner and dessert recipes to fortify your healthThe herbs that will help you relieve forgetfulness and ease muscle tensionEffective treatments for nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, and hormonal illnessesRecipes for preparing everything from breakfast dishes and soups to medicinal wines, teas, poultices, ointments, oils, plasters, and eye dropsWhich “herb of the angels” is used to treat anxiety, fatigue, and much moreAdditionally, you will discover the most favorable environment for growing the plants most heartily recommended by Hildegard, and step-by-step instructions on how to develop your own spiritually organized and fruitful garden plan.
Hildegard built up an immense store of knowledge of diverse creatures and used it to serve others. Our human illnesses, she observed, are often caused by our disrespect for nature and our own bodies. So she researched, conducted experiments, prayed, and cataloged these ingredients to achieve spectacular results for healing both body and soul.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a mystic and scholar who chronicled more than six hundred pages of visions, wrote cantatas, and even devised her own language. She authored The Book of Divine Works, Causes and Cures, and Scivias and corresponded with the greatest intellectuals, theologians, and royals of her time.
As a pioneer of European phytotherapy, Hildegard described and cataloged hundreds of ingredients from plant, mineral, and animal origins. Her recipes, remedies, nutritional advice, and holistic view of the human being are as valued and appreciated today as when she developed them nearly a thousand years ago.
This book faithfully applies Hildegard’s pioneering thought to everyday living in our time. In these potent pages, you will find the medicinal properties of essential herbs as well as how to identify, utilize, and cultivate them. You will also
“Hildegard’s elixir” for curing common ailmentsWays to include delicious herbs in your dinner and dessert recipes to fortify your healthThe herbs that will help you relieve forgetfulness and ease muscle tensionEffective treatments for nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, and hormonal illnessesRecipes for preparing everything from breakfast dishes and soups to medicinal wines, teas, poultices, ointments, oils, plasters, and eye dropsWhich “herb of the angels” is used to treat anxiety, fatigue, and much moreAdditionally, you will discover the most favorable environment for growing the plants most heartily recommended by Hildegard, and step-by-step instructions on how to develop your own spiritually organized and fruitful garden plan.
Hildegard built up an immense store of knowledge of diverse creatures and used it to serve others. Our human illnesses, she observed, are often caused by our disrespect for nature and our own bodies. So she researched, conducted experiments, prayed, and cataloged these ingredients to achieve spectacular results for healing both body and soul.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 15, 2025
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September 29, 2025Our local public library purchased this book at my request. I've just read the introduction and am very pleased with what Leila Marie Lawler says about Hildegard. She warns the reader against three obstacles we face in appreciating her: insisting on science as pseuo-religion, rigid dogma imposed by feminism, and a narrow idea of orthodoxy.
I hope the rest of the book is as good as the introduction!
I hope the rest of the book is as good as the introduction!
September 15, 2026
Beautiful illustrations, but the author talks out of his back end a lot. I literally laughed out loud at his recommendation not to eat too many due to their sugar content. I highly doubt he has much of a botanical background just based on his lackluster summaries and lack of key information.
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