Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: William LeSassier was an influential herbalist and acupuncturist who lived from 1948 to 2003. He developed Williams Triune System of Formulation which continues to be taught by herbalists such as David Winston who has significantly expanded LeSassier's materia medica. LeSassier taught and inspired many of the major herbalists currently practicing in the United States including Matthew Wood, David Winston, Margie Flynt, Kerry Adams and Dina Falconi and his influence is significant. His classes were taped and continue to influence herbal medicine in the United States. William LeSassier was born in 1948 in Texas. He grew up in Midland, then moved to Southern California where he learned theosophy, palmistry, color therapy, and herbalism and where he audited medical school at UCLA. By the age of 20 he was an active healer. In the late 1960s, LeSassier opened The Christos School of Herbal Medicine in Taos, New Mexico, where he ran a herb store, married, and had a daughter, named Ona Marie LeSassier. In the 1960s he wandered around the US, Mexico and the Amazon, doing healing work, teaching and collecting herbs as he went. He wrote some of the very first herb articles in Well-Being Magazine, one of the first publications on Alternative Medicine. Around 1970 he found a teacher of Chinese medicine and persuaded the man to allow him to apprentice with him, learning about the energetics of medicinal herbs and developing an individualized diagnosis system. By the 1970s, he was one of the most well-known herbalists in the country. In 1983, he settled in New York City where he opened Chirons Magic Minerals, where he practiced and taught herbs, bodywork, and energy work. He married again and had a son, Alex LeSassier, in 1986. In the late ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9990246
