The Wilderness Cure

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I loved reading about the woodlands and beautiful countryside. I love forest bathing so someone that appreciates the same thing was a pleasure to read about.

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The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde is an inspirational and fascinating journal encouraging us to disconnect from our phones and reconnect with nature and our ancestral past by foraging for foods that will help us thrive rather than merely survive. I also trained as a doula with Red Tent Doulas under the brilliant Nicola Goodall. I am interested in supporting and empowering young women who wish to have a spiritually uplifting home birth, alongside their midwife. Foraging After investing, I ran Napiers the Herbalists, from 2007-2021. Founded in 1860, Napiers is Scotland’s oldest and most trusted herbal medicine and complementary health company. It may well be the oldest in the U.K. with an unbroken lineage of clinical herbal practice. Napiers still provides health care, herbal supplements and natural skincare to people all over the world. Napiers has three clinics in Bathgate, Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Napiers Claid Clinicfor long Lyme, long Covid and post-infection conditions. Current practice You certainly learn a lot reading this book and it really highlights how as a society we have lost touch with nature, there is much reflection and reverence for our ancestors, our rich history of food and culture and a deep respect for gaiawhich I really appreciated. I always consider that I eat seasonally and to some extent I do, but reading about Mo’s experience it made me reconsider whether my diet is that seasonal after all. I might eat salad in the summer and soups and stews in the winter, but carbs feature all year round. Yet in northern climes the wild carbs can be very limited except in the autumn months. If I want to tame my weight should I become more seasonal with carbs, proteins and fats ?

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Bratman GN, Hamilton JP, Hahn KS, et al. Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2015(112);28:8567-8572. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1510459112. Disconnected: One of the most basic human needs is to feel that you belong and you’re part of a larger tribe. But studies show that this concept goes beyond human relationships alone. Time in nature results in a sense of belonging to the wider world that is vital for mental health. 9However, it's not what I expected at all. There are no recipes or identifying pictures here. (That's probably in an effort to avoid being sued, which I can understand and whole heartedly endorse.) This is more of a stream of consciousness, spread over a year, as Mo connects the food she's gathering now with the way our ancestors would have lived. There are plenty of entries that have nothing to do with food, but are Mo musing on a sunset or a hill or murmuration. Self-Involved: If you dwell on your problems and just can’t stop, a walk through a meadow might put the brakes on the thought train circling through your head. Research shows that a 90-minute walk in nature lowers activity in the part of the brain linked to negative rumination. 6 It is so much more than a book about foraging. It is a book about the environment and about our health, about our place on this fragile planet of ours and about food, about community and our social history. However the message in the book is very clear. If we don't make significant changes in the way we eat and mass produce food it will have an irreversible effect on the planet and our health. A little bit of blurb : A captivating and lyrical journey into our ancestral past, through what and how we eat. Mo Wilde made a quiet but radical pledge: to live only off free, foraged food for an entire year. In a world disconnected from its roots, eating wild food is both culinary and healing, social and political.