Juliette de Bairacli Levy Grandmother of Herbal Medicine
Juliette
de Bairacli Levy is a world renowned herbalist, author,
breeder of Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies, traveller
in search of herbal wisdom, and the pioneer of holistic
veterinary medicine. Juliette has a long record of spectacular
cures to her credit and the books she has written have
been a vital inspiration for the present day herbal
renaissance.
Juliette was born on the 11th hour of the 11th day of
the 11 month, almost in 1911 (actually 1912) in Manchester,
England. Her parents were Jewish - her mother from Egypt
and her father from Turkey. Juliette was raised in a
household with three sisters and two brothers, a nanny,
chauffeur, maid and gardener. She was educated at Lowther
College, one of the best girls schools in Britain, and
went on to study veterinary medicine at the Universities
of Manchester and Liverpool. However, Juliette did not
approve of the vivisection and animal experimentation
that was going on in the universities in the name of
science and health. So she left university after two
years and went to study with the Gypsies and peasants
of the world.
In the late 1930's Juliette ran a distemper clinic
in London where, at a time when many dogs were dying
from this disease, she treated and cured hundreds of
dogs with fasting, herbs and a natural diet. When many
Afghan hound puppies were dying of distemper, Juliette
raised a litter of puppies on her natural rearing methods
and these puppies won Best of Show at Crufts Dog Show.
It was in the 1930's that Juliette developed a line
of herbal supplements for animals known as Natural Rearing
Products. For the next 50 years these were the only
products of their kind on the market. Today these supplements
are still distributed world wide.
During the World War II Juliette worked in the Women's
Land Army gathering sphagnum moss which was used on
soldiers' wounds. After the war she went to Yorkshire
where she cured thousands of sheep who had been declared
incurable by conventional vets. This work brought her
to the attention of Sir Albert Howard, founder of the
Soil Association and creator of modern day "organic"
farming methods. Sir Albert Howard encouraged Juliette
to learn all she could about herbal treatments for animals.
In the 1940's, while travelling in America, Spain,
France, North Africa and Turkey, Juliette gathered herbal
remedies from the nomadic and peasant peoples of these
lands. When her Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and
Stable was published in 1951, it was the first veterinary
herbal ever to be published as before this time, the
art of farriers, gypsies and peasants had been passed
on only by the spoken word.
Thus Juliette became THE pioneer of what is known today
as holistic animal care. She went on to write The Complete
Herbal Book for the Dog. Both these books together with
Juliette's Illustrated Herbal Handbook for Everyone
and Natural Rearing of Children have become classics
and many generations of humans & animals have been
raised & healed on these books.
Faber and Faber, one of Juliette's publishers, say that
for the past 50 years they have always received more
inquiries about Juliette than about any of their other
authors who include T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes and William
Golding.
Juliette's two children, Luz and Rafik, were born
in the early 1950's. She took her children to live in
Israel where they raised owls, hawks, dogs, goats, donkeys
and bees. Juliette became famous for saving her hives
of bees from shell attack during the six day war. In
Israel and later when she moved to Greece, Juliette
continued to write, to raise Afghan hounds, to garden
and to gather herbal remedies. As well as her herbal
books, she has written several travel books, two novels
and three books of poems.
For the past many years Juliette has been coming to
America every summer to give lectures, workshops and
seminars on herbal medicine. In America she has become
recognized as the grandmother of today's herbal renaissance.
In 1998 at their HerbFest in Iowa, Frontier Herbs presented
Juliette with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution
to the herb world. Ash Tree Publishing is honored to
offer to you three of her most popular books and her
"Juliette of the Herbs" video, enjoy!
Explore the free wandering life of this enchant-ing
guide by a legendary teacher who lives in tune with
the rhythms of nature. Lots of herbal lore. 256 pages,
index, illustrations. Retails
for $11.95
Re-indexed, re-designed, and expanded. Lore and uses
for 200 herbs including cosmetic, culinary, and medical
recipes. Juliette de Bairacli Levy is famed for her
mastery of herbal lore and her many books on living
in tune with nature. Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar.
236 pages, index, illustrations. Retails
for $11.95
The classic text for natural child rearing, now revised
and expanded. Back in print at last! Remedies, recipes,
and fascinating lore on nourishing and healing children
naturally. Introduction by Helen Nearing. 196 pages,
index, 14 classic photographs.
Retails for $11.95
This collection includes three great herbal
medicine books and one video by Juliette de Bairacli
Levy, "grandmother of herbal medicine."
Nature's Children is a classic
book on natural childrearing; it includes remedies,
recipes, and fascinating lore.
Traveler's Joy is a unique guide to
finding the wild bounty in simple living; Juliette
covers topics such as travel, water, dwellings, medicine,
and food.
Common Herbs for Natural Health
is an essential herbal with lore and uses for 200
herbs including cosmetic, culinary, and medical recipes.
Juliette of the Herbs, the
exceptional video included in this collection will
delight, entrance, and inspire!
Spanish
Mountain Life (1961) Juliette de Bairacli Levy -
This book tells about Juliette's time in the Sierra
Nevadas of Spain. It was here where Juliette met her
husband, got typhus, gave birth to her daughter, befriended
the Gypsies, her baby was suckled by a goat and had
many more adventures.
In addition to Spanish Mountain Life,
Ash Tree Publishing will also reprint two more of Juliette's
books, due out in 2006!
Summer in Galelie (1963) Juliette de Bairacli
Levy - A Travel Book "...this is more than a poet's
guide-book to the Holy Land. It is a portrait of the
author as a young woman; sensitive, adventurous, learned
in out of door lore, and armed with the tenfold strength
of deep simplicity." — Daily Telegraph
A Gypsy In New York (1965) Juliette de
Bairacli Levy - A Travel Book - Juliette, her two young
children and an Afghan hound explore the city's wild
plants, its birds, the litter in the streets, the wrack
along the rivers, the alley cats and of course the Gypsies.
"As a traveller, she makes other recorders of their
journeys seem like waterflies skating over the surface
of a pond. Her progress across a country is antlike,
from stone to stone and from stalk to stalk of grass."
— Stephen Spender
Don’t be surprised if while reading Nature’s
Children you pause long enough to go for a walk around
your yard, suggest a rain bath to your children or
suggest they plant a garden with you. You may wonder
later why you didn’t start this years ago. If
you long to get your child and self away from the
drugs, food additives, video-games, and out into the
fresh air; closer to nature and natural, this is the
book to read. Levy will guide you gently along the
sweet, green path.
... Traveler's Joy is a first-person account
of facts, observations, poems, memories, guides, and
tips, based upon these experiences. Levy explains
how to stay healthy and strong, provides various recipes
for wounds, fevers, poisonings and stings, and shares
her happy, free approach to life.
...Anyone looking for natural and healthy ways of
healing and who enjoys herbs and plants will enjoy
Common Herbs for Naural Health by Juliette
de Bairacli Levy. It is Levy's hope people will find
as much health and happiness through the studying
of herbs as she and her children have. Learn to know
wild medicinal plants. They are free for the taking.
Nature makes the best medicine.
... Juliette de Bairacli Levy, traveller, writer
and champion of gypsy herbal medicines, is herself
the greatest possible advertisement for her work.
Born in 1912, (at 11 am, on the 11th day of the 11th
month), she is still an active speaker and lecturer,
travelling the world to share her love and understanding
of the natural cures of her ancestors....
ASH TREE PUBLISHING
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P.O. Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498 USA
Phone/Fax 1-845-246-8081
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Wise Woman Authors -- Juliette de Bairacli Levy, Susun Weed, Gail Edwards, Maida Silverman, Cassie Premo Steele, Marie Summerwood
Juliette
de Bairacli Levy is a world renowned herbalist, author,
breeder of Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies, traveller
in search of herbal wisdom, and the pioneer of holistic
veterinary medicine. Juliette has a long record of spectacular
cures to her credit and the books she has written have
been a vital inspiration for the present day herbal
renaissance. 
Common
Herbs for Natural Health
Natures
Children
