On Occult Herbaria & The Green Mysteries

Being a review of Arcana Viridia or the Granary of the Fauns by Daniel A. Schulke

It is a truism that for much of humanity’s existence its medicines have been derived from Nature. For, from where else would they be obtained? Over millennia, the slow and no-doubt fraught process of discerning the medicinal benefits of the world’s 400,000 plant species (of these, only 15,000 have been used for medicinal purposes at some point in histor…