Herbal Relief

One of America’s foremost herbalists provides concise, simple-to-understand, and practical information for using herbs for health and well-being. Each book contains profiles of specific herbs, cautions, contraindications, and easy-to-make recipes to relieve common ailments.

From the Back Cover
Care for Your Children with Gentle, Effective Remedies from Nature With guidance from Rosemary Gladstar — internationally known herbalist, mother, and grandmother — you’ll learn how to use herbs such as chamomile, echinacea, and lemon balm to create gentle baby care products and safe treatments for childhood colds and flus, diarrhea, constipation, earaches, and fever. Gladstar also includes safety precautions, dosage information, and guidelines for when to seek medical help.

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Amazon.com Review
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. A complete women’s health-care manual, this book 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. It is this emphasis upon safe herbology that impressed me most about this book; for example, Gladstar very carefully distinguishes between the safe external applications of Pennyroyal herb and potentially lethal internal misuse of Pennyroyal oil.

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Gladstar points out that “there’s a natural affinity between women and the plant world.” Her own backg (more…)

For anyone who wants to learn more about medicinal plants and how to use them at home, Herbal Remedies provides essential information on how to safely use herbal medicines and shows you how to create your own remedies to target common ailments.

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From Library Journal
The successful “DummiesR” series gets into the alternative health field with these two titles. Dillard, head of Oxford Health Plans’s Alternative Medicine Program, and Ziporyn have done an excellent job of compiling information related to the major alternative therapies. They discuss the limitations of alternative medicine and the dilemma arising from the paucity of scientific evidence on its effectiveness. The authors define the major therapies, outline benefits vs. harmful effects, and advise readers on how to talk with their doctors about alternatives. A final section lists specific health conditions and which therapies might help. Also listed are respected web sites, databases, and other information sources. The scientific literature is referenced throughout the text; tips and informational icons, as in the rest of the series, are quite helpful. Hobbs, an herbalist and botanist, explains the benefits of using herbal remedies, their selection and sa (more…)

Packed with information, this invaluable little book contains herbal remedies for 100 common ailments, including asthma, colds and flu, minor cuts and bruises, muscle cramps, and migraines. The ailments are grouped by body system, and a complete herbal treatment is provided for each. The book profiles the 50 most useful medicinal herbs, from aloe vera to yarrow, and an ingenious graphic symbol system allows readers to quickly cross-reference herbs to the problems they can treat.

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