Delve into the world of herbal supplements to understand the pros and cons of adding them to your health-care regimen. Get a handle on why no herbal supplement is necessarily "good"or "bad,"and learn why it is so important to use supplements responsibly, with your doctor’s input and guidance.

In many cultures, throughout the ages, herbs were cultivated in gardens for their beauty and healing properties. Garden herbs provide remedies for emotional and physical healing and many types of garden herb contains active ingredients that act as natural medicine. Learn everything you need to know about proper herbal selection, extraction, and preparation. Discover the best storage methods to keep and protect the potent active healing ingredients...

Many natural herbal substances have proven and significant healing properties. Discover the remarkable medicinal uses of aloe, ginger, and licorice for the GI tract, and of cranberry and saw palmetto for urogenital conditions. Also follow a case study showing the diagnosis and herbal treatment for a patient with chronic migraines.

"Native American herbal medicine offers a powerful way to connect with the earth and heal naturally -- and with the right guidance, you can learn to harness its restorative effects. Written by an Indigenous herbalist, this guide shows you how to responsibly use traditional plants to treat anxiety, colds, inflammation, and more"--Back cover.

Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.

Liversidge shows you how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill, to create your own tea cupboard. From growing your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea, she lays out when and how to harvest your plants; how to dry it to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year; how to make up fresh and dried teabags; and how to serve a...

Gray explains that recent scientific discoveries have proven that the difference between the sexes and how they relate to one another are biochemically based and can be explained by our hormones.

"Introduces the principles of herbal remedies and guides readers through finding, harvesting, cultivating, and incorporating more than 66 locally abundant medicinal plants into daily life"--