An essential reference to herbal remedies for the most common ailments.

Sharing twenty-five years of clinical expertise, Dr. Asa Hershoff has written a highly accessible and useful guide to hundreds of herbs and their uses for specific conditions. The book's unique format helps readers quickly assess health conditions. Margins on each page depict icons of body parts for very easy reference. An alphabetical listing of ailments provides information on each herb's source, dosage, and possible contraindications.

Integrating the best of herbal tradition and science, this authoritative book is an essential guide for tapping the healing power of herbs.

Discover safer, cheapter, healthier herbal equivalents to prescription and over-the-counter drugs! Many diseases and conditions for which we turn to modern medicine can also be treated naturally with healing herbs, medicinal food, other natural remedies--and these treatments can be safer, less expensive, and possibly even more effective than traditional methods. Let Dr. James Duke, the world's leading authority on healing herbs, lead you through the vast world of natural remedies--from Anise for Asthma to Violet for Varicose Veins, and everything in between. With just a few trips to the health-food store, the supermarket, or your own backyard--and with the help of Dr. Duke--you'll have everything you need to create your own Natural Medicine Cabinet.

After decades of misinformation about cannabis largely due to the well-funded propaganda campaign in the 1930s, public attitudes toward the drug have finally begun to evolve. In 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana and since then, 28 other states, 2 U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia have followed suit. Now countless patients are reaping the benefits of this amazing resource which has been used to effectively treat everything from chronic pain to debilitating illnesses. In The Medical Marijuana Guide: Cannabis and Your Health, Dr. Patricia Frye takes a direct, no-nonsense approach to educating readers about cannabis and its medicinal qualities. After having retired from medicine, Dr. Frye was offered an opportunity to practice cannabis treatment. Intrigued, she educated herself on this emerging alternative and is now ready to share with others what she has learned. In this book, using humorous and touching stories from the many situations she has encountered in her practice over the years, Dr. Frye provides valuable information about the undeniable medicinal qualities of cannabis. This book helps to de-stigmatize this misunderstood drug and educate readers on the history of cannabis and how it is used by the medical community today. This is an accessible, enjoyable resource that will not only entertain readers, but may change their lives for the better.

Revela el uso de la percepcion directa en la comprension de la naturaleza, las plantas medicinales, y la sanacion de las enfermedades humanas
- Explora las tecnicas utilizadas por los pueblos aborigenes y occidentales para aprender directamente de las propias plantas, incluidas las tecnicas de Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, y Masanobu Fukuoka, autor de "The One Straw Revolution" "La revolucion de una brizna de paja"]
Todos los pueblos antiguos y aborigenes afirman que sus conocimientos sobre remedios botanicos provienen de las propias plantas y no de la experimentacion a traves de pruebas y errores. El autor Stephen Harrod Buhner explora minuciosamente esta modalidad de cognicion holistica basada en el corazon a traves de la obra de Luther Burbank, quien cultivo la mayoria de las plantas alimenticias que ahora consumimos sin pensar en su procedencia, y del gran poeta y cientifico aleman Goethe. Los lectores obtendran los medios necesarios para recopilar informacion directamente del corazon de la naturaleza, aprender los usos medicinales de las plantas diagnosticar enfermedades, y comprender el proceso de creacion de alma que se engendra mediante esa profunda conexion con el mundo.