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Author: Editors of THE HERB QUARTERLY Magazine 
Herb Companion explores and celebrates the many wonderful uses of herbs. Not only does each issue offers everything you need to know about growing herbs in your own backyard, but also includes garden plans and cultivation tips. It incorporates newly discovered information on the medicinal uses of herbs with innovative thinking to create tasty recipes. The magazine includes all aspects of herb gardening, cooking and other unusual uses.
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Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica, Third Edition
The new 3rd edition of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica is designed to give practitioners the information they need to practice Chinese herbal medicine with greater understanding and confidence. It provides a wealth of new information -? more than twice the content of the previous edition -- and practical insight into more than 530 of the most commonly used herbs in the Chinese pharmacopoeia. Drawing from a wide range of sources, both classical and modern, this edition provides unparalleled perspective and detail that goes far beyond what is available elsewhere to the Western practitioner.
Herbs are grouped in chapters by function, with expanded summaries and tables for contrast and comparison. Each herb is identified by its pharmaceutical, pinyin, botanical, and family names, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English common names.
Key characteristics are provided at the beginning of each entry, along with dosage, properties, channels entered, and relevant cautions and contraindications. This provides a quick overview of essential information.
Actions and indications are integrated with important combinations that illustrate the range of an herb?s functions, with references to appropriate formulas. This presents a more three-dimensional picture of how each herb is actually used.
Expanded commentary offers in-depth analysis and places each herb in its clinical context through rich historical references. The mechanisms of action underlying important combinations, and comparisons with similar herbs, provide a broader context for understanding how the herb can be used with optimal effect.
A section devoted to nomenclature and preparation describes the most important methods of processing and preparing each herb, and the advantages of each method. It also provides information about other commonly-used names and historical background.
Safety is an important focus of this edition, with an emphasis on proper herb identification. Issues concerning standardized products, desirable qualities, variants, and adulterants are explained for each herb. There is also extensive information on toxicity, as well as chemical constituents.
The utility of this book is enhanced by its wide range of appendices, among which are color photographs comparing the standard and adulterant forms of over 20 common herbs; tables of herbs that are indicated for specific pathologies of the five yin organs; and extensive cross references of the herbs by taxonomy, pinyin, pharmaceutical name, and other East Asian languages. There are also comprehensive indices of both herbs and formulas, as well as a general index.
Author: Dan Bensky, Steven Clavey, Erich Stoger
Hardcover: 1311 pages
Company: Eastland Press (2004-09)
ISBN: 0939616424
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Herbal Healing for Women
Simple, Safe, and Effective Herbal Remedies for Women
For centuries women have turned to herbs to cope with a wide variety of health problems and conditions. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies -- including teas, tinctures, salves, and ointments -- for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman's life. Covering adolescence, childbearing years, pregnancy and childbirth, and menopause, Rosemary Gladstar teaches how herbs can be used to treat the symptoms of conditions such as acne, PMS, morning sickness, and hot flashes. A complete women's health-care manual, Herbal Healing for Women discusses:
* common disorders and the herbs that are effective for treating them;
* how to select and store herbs;
* preparation of hundreds of herbal remedies;
* an alphabetical listing of herbs, including a brief description of the herb, the general medicinal usage, and when necessary, warnings about potential side effects.
By explaining the properties of specific herbs and the art of preparation, Rosemary Gladstar demonstrates not only how to achieve healing through herbs but good health as well.
Author: Rosemary Gladstar
Paperback: 304 pages
Company: Fireside (1993-11-10)
ISBN: 0671767674
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The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual
This guide to the kitchen pharmacy discusses the entire process of preparing herbal medicines at home, from methods of growing, gathering, and drying herbs to different ways of extracting their vital essences and making healing balms, lotions, and more.Author: James Green
Paperback: 384 pages Illustrated
Company: Crossing Press (2000-12-30)
ISBN: 0895949903
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PDR for Herbal Medicines, 4th Edition
The most authoritative resource on herbal medicinesSeeking to separate scientific from anecdotal evidence, the new PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition provides healthcare professionals with an updated reference so they can better advise patients who ask about specific herbal remedies.
Based on information culled from the PhytoPharm U.S. Institute of Phytopharmaceuticals and Thomson Micromedex s comprehensive alternative medicine database, the Physicians Desk Reference, PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition will provide over 700 botanical monographs and a wealth of indices for scientific and common names, indications and therapeutic categories.
PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition provides the latest scientific data in the most comprehensive herbal reference compiled, including Commission E indications, the closest thing to an approved usage guide in the world of herbal medicines. Key monographs have been updated to include recent scientific findings on efficacy, safety and potential interactions; clinical trials (including abstracts); case reports; and meta-analysis results. There are also updated sections on enhanced patient management techniques and nutritional supplements.
As the complicated world of herbal and complementary medicine evolves, there is only one complete and trusted clinical and diagnostic manual for learning how to prescribe herbal medicines that medical practitioners can turn to, the PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition.
Author: Thomson Healthcare
Hardcover: 1300 pages
Company: Thomson Reuters (2007-09-15)
ISBN: 1563636786
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Llewellyn's 2009 Herbal Almanac (Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac)
A Wealth of Herbal Wisdom
Abundant, fresh, and untamed, herbs can invigorate your health and soothe your spirit. Amp up the flavor factor of your favorite foods with savory spices, add a splash of color to your wardrobe, create wholesome and delicious culinary recipes, mix healing salves and tonics to ward off illnesses?and cultivate your personal connection to the natural world.
Enchanting you with herbal wisdom for over fifteen years, Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac offers three dozen articles that delve into the nourishing and healing properties of the earth's most potent and bountiful gift. Get ready to heighten your green consciousness, and feel the powerful influence of herbs in your life.
Lazy Gardens for Busy Bodies by Elizabeth Barrette
Grasses in the Herb Garden by James Kambos
Practical Pestos by Suzanne Ress
Winter and Summer Savory by Anne Sala
Herbs for Young Children by Clea Danaan
Pet Food Cooked with Love (and Herbs) by Kaaren Christ
Organic Cosmetics by Sally Cragin
Cosmetics of Ancient Egypt?Today! by Sorita d'Este
Herbal Home Care by Janice Sharkey
A Plate of Herbal Passion by Nancy V. Bennett
Author: Llewellyn
Paperback: 312 pages
Company: Llewellyn Publications (2008-08-01)
ISBN: 0738707236
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