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"A beginner's guide to herbalism and making herbal remedies in the kitchen."

"Informative and authoritative this is the first fully illustrated practical guide to the healing properties of herbs. The beautifully photographed page-by-page A to Z of over 120 medicinal herbs includes plants with therapeutic properties and shows all the parts used medicinally with descriptions of their traditional uses. Each entry also details the plant's active ingredients and its therapeutic applications from exotic ma Huang used in China against asthma for 5 000 years to the humble cabbage which in clinical trails has demonstrated its effectiveness for stomach ulcers.Herbal home remedies A section on herbal remedies explains how to make and take herbal remedies and offers over 250 safe treatments to help alleviate common complaints from coughs colds and headaches to skin conditions digestive problems and stress. Real-life case studies highlight how herbal remedies work. A special feature shows a full herbal kit for the home and there is practical advice on when to consult a medical herbalist: The Complete Medicinal Herbal is a highly practical handbook as well as a visual sourcebook for anyone wishing to explore and derive benefit from the healing properties of herbs."

""Herbal medicine is enjoying a much deserved revival with more and more people turning to its safe, natural remedies which are free from harmful side-effects." "The most comprehensive and authoritative guide available, this herbal offers clear, step-by-step advice on the use of herbal medicine for the safe treatment of a wide range of complaints. Its unique holistic approach enables you to restore and maintain wellbeing by treating the body as a whole." "Beautifully illustrated with over three hundred full-color pictures, it covers treatment of a wide range of complaints and diseases, gathering herbs and preparing remedies, A-Z herbal featuring more than 200 herbs, and Clear explanations of the body's systems.""

"The trend towards healthy living and the use of natural products is now widespread, and more people than ever before are turning to homoeopathy as an alternative to conventional medicine. Rather than administering drugs to attack the symptoms of disease, homoeopathy aims to stimulate the body's own healing forces to combat the deep-seated causes. This guide to the principles and practice of homoeopathy tells readers how they can treat themselves and their families. It explains "casetaking" and prescribing for such ailments as colds, digestive problems, headaches, cystitis and menstrual cramps; and how to administer first-aid for such injuries as burns and fractures. Instructions accompanying each set of medicines advise when outside medical help should be sought."

"A general disillusionment with conventional medicines, coupled with the desire for a "natural" life style has resulted in an increasing utilization of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) across the developed world. The global market for herbal products has grown rapidly in the past decade, yet the majority are not assessed for their quality, safety and efficacy. This completely revised and updated edition of Herbal Medicines aims to answer the questions raised for the healthcare professional by providing scientifically rigorous, impartial information on medicinal herbs. It contains: informs on quality, safety and efficacy; offersan overview of UK and European leglisation concerning herbal products; offers an account and examples ofthe scientific methods for investigating the chemical constituents of herbs and for determining their biological activities; deals with 148 herbs commonly present in herbal remedies sold by pharmacies in the UK; enables the healthcare professional to advise the public on the rational and safe use of medicines; and presents various appendices grouping together herbs with specific actions highlighting potential interactions with conventional medicine."

"Ancient and tried-and-true herbal remedies for everything from sunburn to sexual ennui feature detailed instructions for making more than one hundred herbal combinations and explain the benefits of the medicines."

"A single source for accurate scientific information on herbal remedies! The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies is the reference tool you need to distinguish those herbal products that have been clinically tested from those for which there is little or no real evidence that substantiates or disputes their claims of efficacy. This essential volume provides a snapshot of 160 herbal products that have been tested in clinical trials. Details of the products and the clinical trials they underwent are here in an easy-to-read, at-a-glance format.Each botanical profile in The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies contains a summary section (table, text and references), followed by product information and clinical trials for that particular product. An evaluation of the strength of the evidence from the trials, along with the context for therapeutics is included to give you a complete picture of each remedy and its usefulness or lack thereof. If there is more than one product based on a particular botanical then the trials are grouped according to the product.This valuable book also makes purchasing easy with manufacturer contact information. With over 30 individual botanicals and 10 multi-ingredient formulas, 160 products and 360 clinical studies, The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies is the book you need to make an informed selection of herbal products. Not only does it list proprietary herbal products that have been tested in controlled clinical studies and provide a rating of the quality of those trials, but, it also describes the fundamentals of herbal medicine, including regulation, characterization, standardization, bioavailability, efficacy, safety, pharmacopoeial monographs as well as incentives, or lack of incentive, for US and European manufacturers to conduct clinical studies.Contributors to the chapters describing the fundamentals of herbal medicine the late Dr. Varro Tyler, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Purdue University and co-author of Tyler's Honest Herbal, Rational Phytotherapy, and Tyler's Herbs of Choice Loren Israelsen, JD, president of the LDI group Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Chair of the USP Dietary Supplement Information Committee Joerg Grünwald, PhD, co-author of the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) for Herbal Medicines, and Stefan Spiess, RPh, President of Grünwalder GmbH Anton Biber, PhD, and Friedrich Lang, PhD, experts in the bioavailability of herbal medicine at Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co., Germany Anthony Almada, MSc, founder and Chief Scientific Officer of IMAGINutrition, Inc. Joseph M. Betz, PhD, Director of the Dietary Supplements Methods and Reference Materials Program at the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements Ezra Bejar, PhD, president of Plant Bioassay Uwe Koetter, PhD, Director of New OTC and Dietary Supplement Product Development at GlaxoSmithKline Srini Srinivasan, PhD, Vice President of the Dietary Supplement Verification Program of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Roy Upton, Executive Director of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia.All of the clinical trials in The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies were rated as to their Level of Evidence according to a system designed by Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Chair of the United States Pharmacopoeia Dietary Supplements/Botanicals Expert Panel and a member of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine."