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CLINICAL HERBALISM: Plant Wisdom from East and West
by Rachel Lord, RN, CH, CMT
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Excellent comprehensive textbook and reference book for students and experienced practitioners.
Highly recommended!
The only textbook of its kind, Clinical Herbalism: Plant Wisdom from East and West is an ideal resource for anyone interested in herbal therapy. With comprehensive, clearly written coverage of Western and Chinese herbs for each body system, this brand-new text offers case histories, along with easy-to-understand instructions for preparing tinctures, percolations, dual extractions, and much more.
Key Features
Integration of Western and Chinese herbal therapeutics presents health challenges from an energetic context, making it especially useful for those with minimal Chinese Medicine training.
Complete coverage addresses a wide variety of topics, including theory, wildcrafting, apothecary, herbal remedy-making, client interaction, and creating and dispensing formulas.
Compendium of Western and Chinese herbs covers usages, contraindications, and herb-drug interactions with an emphasis on herbal safety.
Comparison of Western diseases and Chinese syndromes helps pinpoint which herbs and formulas best match a person’s health condition.
Case histories present specific therapeutic principles and suggested formulas on conditions commonly faced by herbalists.
Explicit instructions detail how to make salves, lotions, and syrups, plus tinctures, percolations, and dual extractions, including calculations, proportions, and worksheets.
Functional medicine principles address the root causes of common chronic Western diseases
SPECTACULAR PLANT BOOK AVAILABLE
EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANTS
of the Southern Rockies
Foothills to Alpine in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho
Mary O'Brien and Karen Vail of Steamboat, Colorado have published a beautiful and comprehensive plant book on the edible and medicinal uses of plants from the foothills to alpine areas of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho, as well as parts of northern New Mexico. Their publishing company is Leaning Tree Tales and you can see sample pages of this gorgeous book on their website:
"EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANTS of the Southern Rockies" has exceptional photography, excellent descriptions, current and traditional medicinal uses, edible uses, gardening tips, cautions, and lots of great anecdotes and stories, including recipes, about the plants.
This excellent new book covers many of the foothills to alpine plants from Denver, west into eastern Utah, North up to Casper, Wyoming, and South into northern New Mexico to Santa Fe.
Mary O'Brien, herbalist, author, permaculturist and herb teacher, and Karen Vail, botanist, photographer, author, teacher, landscape gardener and business owner, have produced a beautiful plant book on the edible and medicinal uses of plants of the Southern Rockies, including their beloved Steamboat Springs, Colorado, an extraordinary ecosystem for plants and herbs. This excellent new book covers many of the foothills to alpine plants from Denver, west into eastern Utah, North up to Casper, Wyoming, and South into northern New Mexico to Santa Fe.
Alfalfa flower with bee. Photo by Joan Zinn, book designer and editor
Milkweed flower attracts the monarch butterfly. Photo by Joan Zinn, book designer and editor
The Photos are SO beautiful
Good photos in a book used as a field guide are hard to come by. Karen, a premier photographer and botanist, took most of them; Mary and I loved going out plant hunting and photographing, so we contributed many, as well. Two of my own favorites are shown (left).
The many full-color photographs are particularly good for identifying plants in many different stages. There are color tabs for locating flowers and berries and individual colored section banners of Trees & Shrubs, Herbaceous and Poisonous plants, categorized in each section by plant family with common and Latin names of plants and plant families. There is a Key To Icons in the front of the book for native plants, non-native plants, caution, plants on the At Risk List, and Plants on the To Watch List, as well as icons for flowers, berries, and catkin flower forms. Also included near the front of the book is a helpful Pictorial Guide with thumbnail photos for quick identification and page numbers directing you to the plant's two-page spread: left-hand pages are a collage of gorgeous photos and right-hand pages have descriptions, uses, notes, cautions, stories, quotes, recipes and anecdotes. Appendices includes Medicinal Preparations, Edible Preparations, an Illustrated Glossary, Glossary of Botanical Terms, Glossary of Medical Terms, Resources, and an Index.
EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANTS of the Southern Rockies
by Mary O'Brien & Karen Vail
ISBN 978-1-937862-93-0
$29.95 + tax + shipping