A perennial favourite with students and practitioners, this is the
go-to reference book for 180 medicinal herbs and their actions.
Materia Medica of Western Herbs is designed for worldwide use and
contains detailed monographs of 180 of the most commonly used medicinal
herbs.
Each herb is presented with:
- Plant name and picture
- Parts used
- Actions
- Pharmacy
- Interaction with drugs
- Botanical description
- Active constituents
- Scientific information
- Precaution and/or Safety
- Historical uses
- Habitat and geographical location
- Nutritional constituents
- Medicinal uses
There are appendices to help students understand pharmacological and
medicinal actions, a glossary listing the known actions of common
constituents, a table of interactions and a comprehensive therapeutic
index. At the start of the book, medicinal herbs are listed by both
their medicinal and common names.
Based on the original Materia Medica of Western Herbs by Carole Fisher
and Gilian Painter, this new book has been reset and streamlined to
include botanical, scientific, pharmacy and safety information.
This textbook is valuable not only for students and practitioners of
herbal medicine but is also of use to any health provider who wishes to
know more about how and why herbs work and the safety issues related to
them.
