Complete Medicinal Herbal (eBook)

A Practical Guide to the Healing Properties of Herbs

Penelope Ody (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
280 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1157-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Complete Medicinal Herbal is a fully illustrated practical guide to the healing properties of herbs. The book includes more than 120 medicinal herbs with important therapeutic properties and a section on their historical uses, The Complete Medicinal Herbal is a must for every home book shelve. All the parts of the plants that can be used medicinally are shown, from fresh flower petals or leaves to the root, bark, and juice. Each entry details the plant's chemical constituents, its actions, and its therapeutic applicationsfrom exotic ma huang, used in China to treat asthma for 5,000 years, to humble cabbage, which has been effective against stomach ulcers in clinical tests. A special how-to section explains the preparation of herbal remedies. There are more than 250 safe treatments to help alleviate common complaintsfrom ordinary coughs, colds, and headaches to special treatments for skin conditions, digestive problems, and children's illnesses even detailed lists of herbs for the elderly.

Autor

Penelope Ody is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in the UK and is the editor of Herbal Society magazine. She lives in the UK.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
• Schlagworte: 40th anniversary • acres • botany class • canning • cayenne pepper • Chaparral • chapparal • Cherokee • coffee table • color photographs • color pictures • comfrey • common ailments • common herbs • constituents • creams • Emery • encycl • familiarizing yourself • flower essence • foxfire • giving birth • GRID • herb • herbal healing • herbalism • Herbalist • herbal medicines • herbal reference • herbal remedies reference tool • Herbals • home remedies • homesteaders • homesteading • homestead life • infusions • invaluable resource • lalitha • livestock • macrobiotic • Maladies • medicinal herbs • met carla • milking goats • modern herbal • Natural Medicine • Oils • ointments • pap smear • peoples • Pharmacy • plant directory • plants shown • poultices • Practical information • Prepper • pressure cooker • professional field • professional medical • raise animals • raising farm • reference manual • Repertory • salves • self sufficiency • Self-Sufficiency • self sufficient • self-sufficient • self sustaining • sore throat • starter chickens • teas • ten essential • Textbook • tinctures • treatment plans • valuable information • Witchcraft
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1157-0 / 1510711570
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1157-0 / 9781510711570