Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals is a five-volume set that
serves as a comprehensive, practical reference manual for herbalists,
physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. Dr. Jill Stansbury
draws on her decades of clinical experience and her extensive research
to provide an unparalleled range of herbal formulas.
Organized by body system, each volume includes hundreds of formulas to
treat common health conditions, as well as formulas that address
specific energetic or symptomatic presentations, including Dr.
Stansbury's own formulas, formulas from herbal folklore, and formulas
from Traditional Chinese Medicine. For each formula, Dr. Stansbury
offers a brief explanation of how the selected herbs address the
specific condition. The book offers many sidebars and user-friendly
lists--helping readers quickly choose which herbs are best for specific
presentations--and details traditional uses of both western herbs and
traditional Asian herbs and formulas that are readily available in the
United States.
Volume 2 focuses on circulation and respiration, offering formulas and
supporting information for treating a wide range of vascular, pulmonary,
and respiratory conditions, including angina, coronary artery disease,
hypertension, congestive heart failure, Reynaud's syndrome, anemia,
coughs, bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, and emphysema.
Each chapter includes a materia medica section that describes
individual herbs with tips on their properties, modes of action, and the
specific symptoms each plant best addresses.
These formularies are also a tutorial for budding herbalists on the
sophisticated art of fine-tuning the precision of an herbal formula for
the constitution and overall health condition of an individual patient,
rather than a basic diagnosis. The text aims to teach via example,
helping clinicians develop their own intuition and ability to create
effective herbal formulas.
Volume 1 (Digestion and Elimination) debuted the set in February 2018.
Volume 3 (Endocrinology) will be published in May 2019. Volumes 4
(Neurology, Pyschiatry, and Pain Management) and 5 (Immunology,
Orthopedics, and Otolarnygology) will be published in 2020.
