The Modern Herbal Dispensatory

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A comprehensive, full-color guide to making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, The Modem Herbal Dispensatory provides instructions for everything from harvesting to administering low-cost, DIY remedies to treat more than 100 illnesses. Readers who appreciate the health-giving properdes of herbal medicines but are discouraged by the high price of commercial products can now make their own preparations for a fraction of the cost. Expert herbalists Thomas Easley and Steven Home tell you everything you need to know about harvesting, preparing, and administering herbs in many different forms—covering fresh and bulk dried herbs; capsules; extracts in water, alcohol, glycerin, vinegar, and oil; and preparations like essential oils and flower essences.
The book explains why some preparations of the same herb will obtain better results than others and how capsules, teas, tinctures, or glycerites of the same plant will not have exacdy the same effect so that you can... Tovább

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A comprehensive, full-color guide to making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, The Modem Herbal Dispensatory provides instructions for everything from harvesting to administering low-cost, DIY remedies to treat more than 100 illnesses. Readers who appreciate the health-giving properdes of herbal medicines but are discouraged by the high price of commercial products can now make their own preparations for a fraction of the cost. Expert herbalists Thomas Easley and Steven Home tell you everything you need to know about harvesting, preparing, and administering herbs in many different forms—covering fresh and bulk dried herbs; capsules; extracts in water, alcohol, glycerin, vinegar, and oil; and preparations like essential oils and flower essences.
The book explains why some preparations of the same herb will obtain better results than others and how capsules, teas, tinctures, or glycerites of the same plant will not have exacdy the same effect so that you can choose the appropriate method for the effect you desire. The authors also cover topical applications of herbs as salves, lotions, poultices, tooth powders, ear drops, and more, and offer an extensive chapter on herbal hydrotherapy. In addition to providing instructions on how to prepare single herbs, they lay out the principles of herbal formulation, a topic that has been largely ignored in other references. More comprehensive than any other guide, thoroughly researched, and presented with ease of use in mind, this book is an excellent reference for those who want to produce all the herbal remedies they need—and to save money in the process.

"This is a phenomenal addition to the herbal bookshelf It fills the need for a large, comprehensive herbal formulary—the likes of which we have not seen for a hundred years—yet it is so much more than that: a complete guide to the serious use of herbs from the field and forest to the single remedy or formula in clinic." —Matthew Wood, author of The Earthwise Herbal books
"This is now the standard medicine-making textbook for schools of herbal medicine. It contains more methods and more forms than anything else in print, all clearly explained and demonstrated, with bonus materials on herbal energetics and materia medica" —Paul Bergner, director, North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, editor. Medical Herbalism journal
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