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Author:   Karl Elliot-Gough
Publisher:   Aeon Books Ltd
Imprint:   Aeon Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9781801521628

ISBN 10:   180152162
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   27 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS  INTRODUCTION    Human Plants    The diseases of civilization    Oikonomia    Disconnection NETTLE    Humble pie    It’s a family affair    Nettle history, ethnobotany and folklore    “It’s got more chi, man!”    A whole heap of benefits    Side effects    Tea terrorists and vultures    Equipoise (ek-wuh-poiz)    “Who’s the daddy?”    A bit more ChAT    Phenomenal phenols    The first epidemiological study    Nettles for textiles    What’s wrong with cotton?    The nettle industrial revolution    Get foraging    Recipes    Nettle neglect  DANDELION The best things in life are free Etymologicum What’s in a name? Chronological cappers When folklore was the law Dawn of the lawn The Big C Duelling with the diuretics Warning! Nutrients Phreaky phytonutrients The inconvenient truth More than an opinion Taraxagum Dandelions are proper cool Foraging/harvesting Culinary dandelions Final word  YARROW   Armageddon   Them Greeks, they knew a thing or two   History and names   Ethnobotanical   Traditional   “It’s all about the phytonutrients, darling!”   Axis of Evil leading the way (again)    Here’s more countries’ opinions   OTC cash registers on fire   Aedes albopictus   Radiation   Divination   “Need ya aura cleansing or chakras aligned, Mister?”   Anything else?   It can’t all be good, can it?   Foraging, growing and culinary curios   Summation  PLANTAIN    Canine crisis    The People will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice …    Species specific    Names    First Nation peoples loved them    History    Traditional uses    Firm scientific credentials    Forbidden knowledge    Psyllium (silly om)    Farmers need to become the guardians of the soil CANNABIS    Human Plant numero uno?    Mary Jane, what’s in the name?    “Psst … you wanna buy sum smoke?”    Hamp or hemp    Cannabis history, BC    AD    Into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries      Building a better world – Hempcrete    Fabric    Paper production    The decorticator    Plastic, bio-plastic and oil    Hempire    The seed – health    CBD    Some science    Side effects    Smacked out or stoned?    Wrapping it up  HAWTHORN    Barbs of wisdom    Hawthorn (Crataegus sp.)    Botanical    Folk and ethnographic    Bubbling up from the depths of time    Jesus Christ and the soul of London    Vibrations, green men, fairies and pixilated superstitions    Traditional uses    Heart disease    Global science    Fishy science with an industrial whiff    Eating    Pleaching and a smeuse    Enclosure    It’s not ‘just’ the land that got stolen/reappropriated BLACKBERRY    Botanically and plantality    Challenging etymology    So little folklore, so much Devil’s piss    History, ethnobotanic and traditional uses    Any problems?    The biggest threat to the future of all Gaia’s organisms    Last scientific studies to digest    Can’t get away from those polyphenols    The B17 story    Foraging and Shinrin-Yoku    Blackberry cultivation    Yum! SOLUTIONAL SUMMATION  SYSTEMIC REFORMATION Health system    An end to the diseases of civilization    Medicine Economic system    What is money?    Crypto or Green currency?    Show us the money    A Green-backed economy Industrial system    Building    Fabrics    Transport    Petroleum Agricultural system    The great agricultural myth    PermaLife 1:0    A nation is only as healthy as the soil it stands upon    Permaculture    10 acres with planning consent    How to get the land … the peasants are revolting    Forest charter, allotments and PCCs    Land prices and subsidies    Pharmas to farmers Cultural system    Obscenity law    The Co-operator    Wetiko and follow the money    Socialism?    Take a bow, the Seven Plants    APPENDIX Nutritional profiles Pesticide sprayed since 1950 Pollution GDPs vs corporation revenues Humans Historical pandemics BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX                   

Reviews

“Karl Elliot-Gough’s seven chosen plants are supremely beneficial to mankind, yet if noticed at all are condemned as weeds. He passionately makes the case for how they can (and should) spearhead a revolution in tackling the diseased foundations of civilization. I love the audacity of it, the blend of deep research and personal experience, the fearlessness in taking on any authority or dogma, the costed solutions. I have so enjoyed my wild ride with Seven Plants to Save the World, and it leaps straight into my top ten list of all herbal books.” Matthew Seal, co-author of Hedgerow Medicine “This book focuses on seven plants that can change the world but has a much wider reach.  It sets out a way forward that will make our soil healthier, our environment healthier, us humans healthier and ultimately, our economy and quality of life much better - for everyone. Our civilization can go the way of previous failed civilisations, but we understand how to make things right and this book shows the way to avoid the downfall that our ancestors suffered. The answer lies in the soil and in its products, of which we are the most dependent on the health of the plants and animals that the soil nourishes.” Craig Sams, co-founder of Whole Earth, Green & Blacks chocolate and Carbon Gold biochar, and chairman of The Soil Association “What an enthralling journey this book took me on. Outlining so much fascination about the seven plants. Here you will find solutions to a healthier soil, healthier humans and healthier society.  This might be underground now but this book needs to become mainstream as soon as possible.”                      Paul Benhaim, chairman at The Hemp Plastic Company, CEO at Elixinol, and CBD company “Seven Plants to Save the World is a joyously exuberant deep dive into seven very familiar plants, plus a lot of fabulous rabbit holes of curiosity into the culinary, ethnobotanical, political, social and etymological delights of how these plants have interacted with us throughout our history. The seven plants chosen by Elliot-Gough have all sorts of stories to tell, and guide us back to holistic economies, health management, and sustainable social structures to support our health and wellbeing of the future. Although, as he joyfully observes, it is these same plants that appear to be following us around, is it not that they have chosen us?!” Anita Ralph, herbalist and author of Native Healers “Karl Elliot-Goughs book introduces us to the dizzying array of proven health benefits to be offered by the seven herbal champions under discussion. This allows us to fully appreciate the massive contribution that plants make to our health and wellbeing in all vital areas of life. It also provokes consideration of the skills of the professional herbalist and how an understanding of the complexities of plant-based medicine are demanding and go way beyond the mechanistic approach of symptomatic treatment. His ambitious and far-reaching book is packed full of facts and figures. A must read for anybody interested in restoring balance and healing to our culture and how we live on a global scale.” Mary Tassell, herbalist and author of Native Healers “A prodigious labour of love and a remarkable polemic against global consumer capitalism told with enormous energy and wit.” Julian Barker, herbalist and author of Physic and Human Health and it’s Maintenance

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Karl Elliot-Gough studied archaeology and anthropology at UCL and is a former musician, producer and record label owner providing aural pleasure from non-genre specific quality electronic music. Twelve years of research and writing for his first book The Seven Deadly Whites: The Rise of the Diseases of Civilization (Earth Books, 2016). Karl lives in the Sussex countryside with his wife and 4 children and enjoys West German ceramics, a theremin, things megalithic and anthropologic, cycling fast, foraging slow and can sometimes be found taking walks and talks at festivals.

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