Dear Reader,
It’s here! The Art and Science of Gemmotherapy: The Complete Guide is now available in print and I could not be more excited to share it with you.
There is a limited supply of signed copies available for you here at the Gemmo Store with free shipping.
Unsigned copies are available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org.
Here’s what you will discover within the full-color, artfully designed 277-page reference guide:
A chapter dedicated to each of the 58 extracts that include
- How and When to Use This Extract
- My personal experience with the plant
- An Oracle Message ( to be used in combination with the Portal to the Gemmo Forest Card Deck)
- The plant description
- The primary and secondary action of the extract
- An at-a-glance usage guide
A Symptomatic Guide
The Definitive List of Gemmos for Acute Colds, Flu, and Viruses
A Chronic Use Chart
A Summary of Precautions
The Art and Science of Gemmotherapy, A Complete Guide, is precisely the book I had hoped to find at the origin of my Gemmo search 13 years ago. In this book, I share all I have come to understand about each of the 58 extracts currently available in the United States. It is my deepest desire that it will be of service today and for many years to come.
The writing is based on my direct experiences, with essential contributions from Prof. Olah Neli Klinga, who verified the primary and secondary actions of each extract and wrote the foreword. I am not only proud to share this book due to its content, but also its beauty. Thanks to designer Christine Terrell and the artwork of Laura Roman, it is a welcoming space that invites you to linger.
It was the limitations I discovered when using homeopathy alone in my practice that first launched my search for its perfect companion. My explorations traversed through a dozen or more modalities, trying them on and leaving them behind until I came back to one I knew little to nothing about, aside from a brief personal experience. Gemmotherapy didn’t even qualify as an outlier in 2012. The English resources available were limited to a small handbook by Richard Halfron, documents published by Marcus Graeves, and a self-paced course offered by the School of Gemmotherapy in the UK. The work of Halfron and Graeves proved interesting enough to lead me to enroll in the pre-zoom online written module format posted within Nick Churchill’s program.
In my studies, I discovered a collection of interesting facts about the extracts, but was left longing for more. Knowing that one extract might benefit a particular diagnosis only led me to question what individual symptoms might be present. I wanted to understand how the need for a particular extract would look in people, and to some degree, I am still uncovering that today. It was within my pursuit a dozen years ago that the initial framework for The Art and Science of Gemmotherapy took form.
The recommended use of high doses and tonics for the liver, which is still popular today, may have made sense on paper, but simply did not play out well in practice with me, my family members, or my clients. This methodology often resulted in aggravation of symptoms, which proved the promising power of the Gemmos but sent a clear message that they were being applied out of sequence. I felt strongly that their true potential was yet to be uncovered, and I still believe we’ve only scratched the surface.
These failed attempts to access the essence of Gemmotherapy marked the beginning of the most incredible journey of my lifetime: teasing out the order in which the body healed and categorizing Gemmo extracts into subgroups that could be used sequentially. This was not a solitary task. I will be forever grateful to the countless practitioners and hundreds of Gemmo clients for their willingness to readily share feedback for the benefit of all. Their contributions certainly shaped my understanding, along with those of several key Romanian mentors, including Sorina Soescu, Didi Surcel, Carmen Ponoron, Nelly (Olah-Neli Kinga), and Dana Campean. Their medical backgrounds enabled me to align the anecdotal evidence I observed with proven research, forming what became The Art and Science of Gemmotherapy.
As a reader of this weekly missive, you probably understand that the publication of this book hardly completes my journey with Gemmos. There was a time I thought it might. However, as the curator of the first Gemmo Forest, I have been blessed with even more to discover about the known and potential future Gemmo trees and shrubs, as well as the land in which they grow. Today, we are celebrating the Gemmo Forest with a Guild Fest, honoring the permaculture practices we utilize. It’s only fitting that it falls on the same day I first share The Art and Science of Gemmotherapy with each of you, making it a doubly joy-filled day.
If a signed copy of the book is your wish, please place your order for a copy soon, and if you’d like a searchable reference guide for all 58 extracts for yourself or your practice, you will find that right here.
Until next week,
