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Juliette de Bairacli Levy and one of her home-bred and holistically raised Turkuman Afghans in the 1960s.
Juliette de Bairacli Levy was a world renowned
herbalist, author, breeder of Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies,
traveller in search of herbal wisdom, and the pioneer of holistic
veterinary medicine. Juliette has a long record of spectacular cures to her
credit and the books she has written have been a vital inspiration for the
present day herbal renaissance.
Juliette was born on the 11th
hour of the 11th day of the 11 month, almost in 1911 (actually 1912) in
Manchester, England. Her parents were Jewish - her mother from Egypt and
her father from Turkey. Juliette was raised in a household with three
sisters and two brothers, a nanny, chauffeur, maid and gardener. She was
educated at Lowther College, one of the best girls schools in Britain, and
went on to study veterinary medicine at the Universities of Manchester and
Liverpool. However, Juliette did not approve of the vivisection and animal
experimentation that was going on in the universities in the name of
science and health. So she left university after two years and went to
study with the Gypsies and peasants of the world. In the late 1930's
Juliette ran a distemper clinic in London where, at a time when many dogs
were dying from this disease, she treated and cured hundreds of dogs with
fasting, herbs and a natural diet. When many Afghan hound puppies were
dying of distemper, Juliette raised a litter of puppies on her natural
rearing methods and these puppies won Best of Show at Crufts Dog Show.
It was in the 1930's that Juliette developed a line of herbal
supplements for animals known as Natural Rearing Products. For the next 50
years these were the only products of their kind on the market. Today these
supplements are still distributed world wide.
During the World
War II Juliette worked in the Women's Land Army gathering sphagnum moss
which was used on soldiers' wounds. After the war she went to Yorkshire
where she cured thousands of sheep who had been declared incurable by
conventional vets. This work brought her to the attention of Sir Albert
Howard, founder of the Soil Association and creator of modern day "organic"
farming methods. Sir Albert Howard encouraged Juliette to learn all she
could about herbal treatments for animals.
In the 1940's, while
travelling in America, Spain, France, North Africa and Turkey, Juliette
gathered herbal remedies from the nomadic and peasant peoples of these
lands. When her Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable was published
in 1951, it was the first veterinary herbal ever to be published as before
this time, the art of farriers, gypsies and peasants had been passed on
only by the spoken word.
Thus Juliette became THE pioneer of
what is known today as holistic animal care. She went on to write The
Complete Herbal Book for the Dog. Both these books together with Juliette's
Illustrated Herbal Handbook for Everyone and Natural Rearing of Children
have become classics and many generations of humans & animals have been
raised & healed on these books.
Faber and Faber, one of
Juliette's publishers, say that for the past 50 years they have always
received more inquiries about Juliette than about any of their other
authors who include T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes and William Golding.
Juliette's two children, Luz and Rafik, were born in the early 1950's.
She took her children to live in Israel where they raised owls, hawks,
dogs, goats, donkeys and bees. Juliette became famous for saving her hives
of bees from shell attack during the six day war. In Israel and later when
she moved to Greece, Juliette continued to write, to raise Afghan hounds,
to garden and to gather herbal remedies. As well as her herbal books, she
has written several travel books, two novels and three books of poems.
For the past many years Juliette has been coming to America every
summer to give lectures, workshops and seminars on herbal medicine. In
America she has become recognized as the grandmother of today's herbal
renaissance. In 1998 at their HerbFest in Iowa, Frontier Herbs presented
Juliette with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to the herb
world.
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Nature's Children - Book Review
Don’t be surprised if while reading Nature’s
Children you pause long enough to go for a walk around
your yard, suggest a rain bath to your children or
suggest they plant a garden with you. You may wonder
later why you didn’t start this years ago. If
you long to get your child and self away from the
drugs, food additives, video-games, and out into the
fresh air; closer to nature and natural, this is the
book to read. Levy will guide you gently along the
sweet, green path.
The Treatment of Fevers - Excerpt from Nature's Children
Traveler's Joy - Book Review
... Traveler's Joy is a first-person account
of facts, observations, poems, memories, guides, and
tips, based upon these experiences. Levy explains
how to stay healthy and strong, provides various recipes
for wounds, fevers, poisonings and stings, and shares
her happy, free approach to life.
Common Herbs for Natural Health - Book Review
...Anyone looking for natural and healthy ways of
healing and who enjoys herbs and plants will enjoy
Common Herbs for Naural Health by Juliette
de Bairacli Levy. It is Levy's hope people will find
as much health and happiness through the studying
of herbs as she and her children have. Learn to know
wild medicinal plants. They are free for the taking.
Nature makes the best medicine.
Common Herbs for Natural Health - Foreword
Common Herbs for Natural Health - Introduction
The Good ~ Juliette de Bairacli Levy - Biographical Article
... Juliette de Bairacli Levy, traveller, writer
and champion of gypsy herbal medicines.