About Eliot Cowan and Plant Spirit Medicine

Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit, and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of
the heart and soul.
Eliot Cowan, author of Plant Spirit Medicine

Plant Spirit Medicine is a healing approach using the spiritual aspect of the plants that share our world. It has been developed by Eliot Cowan, author of the book Plant Spirit Medicine.

Eliot Cowan studied Acupuncture and the Ancient Chinese Five Element theory. As he began to work with the spirits of plants, he found that substituting a plant spirit for the acupuncture needle had a greater effect. It seemed that when using a plant Spirit, something is given to the person which is absent when using a needle. Eliot’s understanding of healing on this level continued to deepened as his work began as an apprentice within the healing system of the Huichol people of Mexico, and his consequent initiation as a Huichol Shaman after a twelve year apprenticeship.

For information about Eliot Cowan and the courses he teaches visit Blue Deer Center website.

The Healing Power of Plants
Exhibit at Rogers Historic Museum

This traveling exhibit from the University of Colorado Museum highlights several healing traditions that use medicinal plants and explores the impact of encroachment on the habitat of some healing plants The exhibit will be open at the Rogers Historical Museum through October 31, 2007. For more details, call 479-621-1117