A complete guide to herbal remedies explains how to find, select, prepare, and safely administer the most effect herbal treatments and provides additional sections on herbal folklore and tradition. Original.

Herbs for Health & Healing

Bergner, Paul

Stansbury, Jill

Reference

New Amer Library

Healing traditions have recognized garlic as a natural "wonder drug" for thousands of years. Now medical research indicates garlic may prevent and even reverse high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer, as well as a host of other serious health problems. In fact, a recent head-to-head comparison proved garlic just as effective as the leading cholesterol-reducing drug in lowering cholesterol levels. This comprehensive handbook describes exactly how to use garlic as a versatile, powerful, and effective medicine for a tremendous variety of common illnesses. The simple treatments described in this book can help you:Prevent cancer Lower your cholesterol level Reverse high blood pressure Boost your immune system Overcome fatigue Resist colds and flu Prepare healing garlic oil, ear drops, poultices, syrups, ointments, and other garlic treatments

The Healing Power of Garlic: The Enlightened Person's Guide to Nature's Most Versatile Medicinal Plant

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Prima Lifestyles

Work, stress, junk food, caffeine, colds, late nights, and all the other challenges our bodies face everyday can take their toll, depleting the basic vital energy the Chinese call chi. Ginseng and the tonic herbs—especially when combined with changes in diet and lifestyle—can replenish depleted chi, restoring balance in the body, invigorating the immune system, and enhancing strength and stamina. Author Paul Bergner explains the Chinese holistic approach to health in simple terms, describing how to use ginseng and the tonic herbs for the best possible results. Athletes will want to use ginseng to improve endurance. People recovering from illness will find it builds strength, vitality, and resilience. Women can use tonic herbs to ease the symptoms of menopause, and men can use them to increase sperm count and sex drive. In fact, just about anyone can improve his or her helath with tonic herbs—this book shows you how. About the Author Paul Bergner is an herbalist and author of The Healing Power of Garlic. He is clinic director at the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Boulder, Colorado, and an editor of Medical Herbalism and Clinical Nutrition Update.

The Healing Power of Ginseng & the Tonic Herbs: The Enlightened Person's Guide

Today, echinacea and goldenseal are among the top-selling consumer-level medicinal herbs in the U.S. These herbs are the most famous of the class of ?immune system herbs,? which have been respected as panaceas or cure-alls in different civilizations since early recorded history. In his new book, The Healing Power of Echinacea, Goldenseal, and Other Immune System Herbs author Paul Bergner explains in detail everything readers will want to know about these and twenty other immune system herbs.Bergner explains how to substitute traditional Western herbs, Chinese herbs, Japanese medicinal mushrooms, and other plant substances for often-abused antibiotic drugs. He tells how to use herbs to treat such conditions as: colds and fluchronic infectionsperiodontal diseaseurinary tract infectionsand much, much more!Bergner offers a detailed list of herbal remedies for specific ailments, information on proper dosages, as well as a glossary of immune system terminology. This is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in health and well-being.

Healing Power of Echinacea and Goldenseal and Other Immune System Herbs (The Healing Power)

You can enjoy robust health without relying on a lowfat diet or bottles full of nutritional supplements. You don?t even have to give up meat. The secret lies in The Healing Power of Minerals, Special Nutrients, and Trace Elements. From calcium and iron to the essential fatty acids and beyond, minerals are the hard-working dietary necessities that supply the body?s building materials, affect digestion, and perform other tasks crucial to health and fitness.Modern farming and food processing rob food of valuable nutrients. But respected nutritionist, herbalist, and researcher Paul Bergner explains, item by item, how to restore 22 important minerals and other nutrients to your diet. You will learn how much of each you need and which foods can provide it. Find out just how easy and enjoyable good nutrition be!

The Healing Power of Minerals, Special Nutrients and Trace Elements

The Plant Healer’s Path is the first of two volumes by Jesse Wolf Hardin, cofounder of Plant Healer Magazine, with enchanting tales, medicinal plant profiles and favorite herbal recipes by Kiva Rose, as well as contributions by David Hoffman, Phyllis Light, Paul Bergner and more. Hardin tackles topics vital to an effective, empowered herbal practice, including many never addressed before, with suggestions for taking control of and enjoying our lives, and tips that can benefit herbalists and non-herbalists alike. Paul Bergner says“Whether just beginning or already walking the path, The Plant Healer’s Path provides a panoramic road map of the terrain – both internal and external – for any person called to healing with plants... with thought-provoking essays on the issues most important to our work,” and Phyllis Light writes that this book “does more than provide a working model of herbal practice, it also addresses our hopes, our fears and concerns as herbalists, acknowledging the differences, the uniqueness that each brings to their art, craft and science. What more could we ask for?”

The Plant Healer's Path: A Grassroots Guide For the Folk Herbal Tribe

Hardin, Jesse Wolf

Rose, Kiva

Hoffman, David

Light, Phyllis

Wicke, Roger

Coffman, Sam

Altman, Rebecca

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

For the many years Plant Healer Quarterly has been published, our mission has been to inform, equip and empower a more naturally healthful world, including providing the fundamental skills and tools needed for developing the most effective medicinal herb practice possible. To this end, we have compiled a series of books for clinical practitioners and all those intending to treat their selves and others with botanicals, beginning with the huge first Herbal Clinician (Volume I), and including this 2nd volume and subsequent titles. Compiled here are an additional 33 original articles drawn from Plant Healer Quarterly issues and Class Essays ebooks, authored by 20 of the most insightful and compelling writers ever in the field of herbalism.Herbal Clinician II has been organized into three sections, covering:ApproachesIntake insights and protocol, placebos, success criteria, marginalized populations, integrating herbalism into the conventional medical system, and the intersection of nursing and plant medicineAssessmentSensory explorations, energetics, constitutional and humoral approaches, tongue assessment, and condition evaluationSkillsEssential science for herbalists, minimizing bias, red flag symptoms, blood work, lab values, herbal constituents, dosage, herb/drug interactions, contraindications, and patient compliance.

Herbal Clinician II: Approaches, Assessment, & Skills

Healer, Plant

Easley, Thomas

Hardin, Kiva

Ganora, Lisa

McDonald, Jim

Bunce, Larken

Carr, Juliette Abigail

Drum, Ryan

Independently published

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