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The Healing Herbs: The Ultimate Guide to the Curative Power of Nature's Medicines, (Paperback)
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- Comprehensive Herbal Guide: This paperback offers an ultimate guide to the curative power of nature's medicines, providing information for confident, effective, and safe use of medicinal plants.
- Detailed Plant Profiles: It examines 100 widely used and easily available medicinal plants, detailing their history, folklore, healing properties, and summarizing scientific research on their benefits.
- Practical Usage Information: The book explains how to find, take, store, prepare, and even grow various healing herbs.
- A-Z Herb Encyclopedia: Includes an easy-to-use alphabetical encyclopedia of herbs for quick reference.
- Condition & Treatment Guide: Features a "Prevention and Treatment" section with an A-to-Z guide for conditions (e.g., ear infection to stress) and the herbs to treat or prevent specific symptoms.
- Medicinal Actions Index: Provides an A-to-Z list of medicinal uses, from antibiotic to sedative, offering natural alternatives to certain medicines.
- Unique Herbal Applications: Explores other unusual uses for healing herbs, such as insect repellent or memory improvement.
- Important Precautions Included: Both the "Conditions" and "Healing Actions" sections include special precautions regarding herb preparation, long-term use, or short-term effects.
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- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreHealth, Mind & Body
- Pub date1995-07-01
- Pages656
- Reading levelGeneral Adult
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The Healing Herbs provides the information you need to use the earth's wonderful bounty of medicinal plants confidently, effectively, and above all, safely. It examines 100 of the most widely used, most easily available, most familiar, and most fascinating medicinal plants, tracing their history, folklore, and healing properties, and summarizing the latest scientific research on their many benefits. The Healing Herbs also explains where to find the herbs, how to take them, store and prepare them, even how to grow them. The Healing Herbs also includes an easy-to-use A-to-Z herb encyclopedia, plus a section titled Prevention and Treatment: A Fast-action Guide to Using the Healing Herbs, including: Conditions--from ear infection to stress, A-to-Z conditions and the herbs you can use to treat and prevent specific symptoms and diseases; Healing Actions--from antibiotic to sedative, an A-to-Z list of medicinal uses with herbs as a natural alternative to certain medicines; Other Uses--some unusual uses for the healing herbs, for example as insect repellent or memory improvement. Both Conditions and Healing Actions include special precautions about certain herbs, whether in preparation, long-term use, or short-term effects.
Publishers Weekly,Except for vague references to folk practices, many books on herbs gloss over their medicinal uses. Not so here. After chapters discussing the history of herbal therapy, the controversies waged over the safety of herbal remedies, and strategies for herb storage and preparation, Castleman offers encyclopedic entries on 100 of the most common healing herbs. Unlike some herbalists, he makes no extravagant claims about the plants; subheadings entitled ``Dead-End File'' and ``The Safety Factor'' detail, respectively, what specific herbs won't cure and the herbs' side effects. The author wisely stresses that self-treatment with herbs should never take the place of professional medical care. His informative entries are highly readable and packed with anecdotal lore. A final chapter contains an invaluable table of common ailments, with herbal preventives and treatments included. A list of references and a bibliography finish this very useful volume. Photos not seen by PW. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Health, Mind & Body
Pub date
1995-07-01
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Great book for learning about herbalism
A wonderful text for anyone curious about using natural ingredients to help alleviate life's pains and body problems. Full of useful ideas for salves, teas, and other useful home remedies.
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Aug 3, 2025
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Love this book!
This book is great for natural healing for all types of diseases or etc!
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great book if you like herbs
more than 500 pages of herbs and their properties descriptions if you believe in herbs is a great book and affordable price
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