Desk Reference to Nature’s Medicine
Desk Reference to Nature’s Medicine Books
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For millennia, humans have looked to nature for remedies to ailments fantastic and small. Long before formal science enabled us to take a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of dozens of diseases, and handle complaints of every kind. And today, countless people still use medicinal plants, whether in habitual roles or as building blocks for new research and innovative drugs.
Featuring 350 full-color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this accessible, fact-filled book is based on the work of celebrated botanical experts and presents alphabetically arranged, perfectly illustrated entries for hundreds of plants touted for millennia to soothe, even heal. Each is clearly described, with full details of its corporal appearance and medicinal uses; its origins and geographic distribution, how it’s harvested and used in conventional and alternative medicine, a range map; and more.
It’s also a fascinating medical chronicle filled with informative sidebars on everything from ancient folklore to the latest research. Readers learn how aspirin evolved from a concoction of willow bark to the familiar white pill of today, how the foxglove’s flowery beauty contributes to the potent heart drug digitalis, and how many other now common treatments have deep historical and cultural roots. It’s a journey that starts many centuries ago in remote places like the Amazon rain forest, where shamans practiced their powerful curative key of plants, and leads to the high-tech pharmaceutical labs of today’s scientists working to learn new plant-based drugs that can be used effectively to handle diseases major and minor alike, from cancer to the common cold.
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I use a lot of medicinal herbs and also make herbal mixtures, and this book is fantastic! Gorgeous photos and complete descriptiosn of herbs and their properties. Anyone interested in medicinal herbs will like this book! Anyone who likes plants will like this book! Highly urge it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Very detailed in rank about most herbs, I wish there were more in there, but the ones they do list are very detailed in their descriptions.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is gorgeous It has full color pictures. It also has lots of in rank. Maps and locations on where the plants are usally found. It is a thick hard cover book. A fantastic addtion to anyones library. Fantastic for gardening, medicine or science.
Rating: 5 / 5
There are so many herbal books on the market today that one may possibly wonder about the need for yet another, even with the National Geographic branding attached to it promising quality – but DESK REFERENCE TO NATURE’S MEDICINE offers something different. It’s place together not by a single person but by leading experts in the herbal medicine field, it packs in over 200 color photos, 150 botanical drawings and over 150 maps, and its alphabetical agreement of therapeutical plants covers not just corporal appearance and medicinal properties but geographic distribution, how it’s harvested in used, and more. Nine essays provide an overview to world healing traditions even as handy sidebars of detail pack in the history and cultural insights, making for a matter-of-fact manual which is also a superb history.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Rating: 5 / 5
I wholeheartedly agree with the other reviewers that this is a 5-star book and an vital volume to include in your herbal library – or if you are looking for ONE herbal book, this is it.
Each entry has in rank on the history and lore of not only the herb, but even its name; where and how it grows, how to cultivate (that in rank is often left out of other books, which just tell you what part of the plant to use, now HOW to use them), and any supporting scientific evidence (or lack thereof).
The sections on geographic locations worldwide and their indiginous plants and cultural contributions to herbalism are unlike anything in any other herbal book I’ve seen. I may possibly not place this one down, I turned each page with the same enthusiasm I’d have had for a suspense thriller, and this is a reference book, not something that would normally garner excited responses like that. Don’t pass this one up!
Rating: 5 / 5