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		<title>Introduce yourself to a plant this spring.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you hang out with an herbalist for long enough, you&#8217;ll likely be exhorted to &#8220;get to know&#8221; a plant. Some people might find that phrase a bit funny. &#8220;I can get to know about a plant,&#8221; they might say, &#8220;but to get to know a plant directly &#8212; what could that mean?&#8221; Well, most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying attention: herbalism from the ground up.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the last post in a series on my herbal philosophy. Previous posts in the series: The body is an ecosystem, The body is not a war zone, Escaping the body-as-battleground trap and Respecting human ecology.) My approach to herbal practice is very simple: pay attention. Pay attention to plants. Look at them. Touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respecting human ecology.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the fourth post in a series on my herbal philosophy. The first three posts were The body is an ecosystem, The body is not a war zone and Escaping the body-as-battleground trap.) I said I would write about why Iâ€™m not a big fan of the body-as-temple theory of health. This might have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escaping the body-as-battleground trap.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the third post in a series on my herbal philosophy. The first two posts were The body is an ecosystem and The body is not a war zone.) Conventional medicine tends to think of the body as a battleground rather than an ecosystem. It takes a divide-and-conquer approach, dissecting the body into little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The body is not a war zone.</title>
		<link>http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-body-is-not-a-war-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the second post in a series on herbal philosophy. The first post was The body is an ecosystem.) In a comment to my post on flu care, Persephone asked me to explain what I meant when I said â€œIâ€™m not a big fan of the body-as-battleground theory of disease.â€ The body-as-battleground theory of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The body is an ecosystem.</title>
		<link>http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2007/02/04/the-body-is-an-ecosystem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the first post in a series on my philosophy of herbalism. The posts in the series will alternate over the next couple of weeks with posts on herbs and food.) The body is an ecosystem, and the basic principles of ecology are useful to herbalists: 1. Relationship. All systems of the body relate [...]]]></description>
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