Best of
Herbs

2013

Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging Resistant Viral Infections


Stephen Harrod Buhner - 2013
    Global crises such as COVID-19, SARS, and dengue feaver spread more quickly than we can develop medicines to fight them. Herbalist and best-selling author Stephen Harrod Buhner has studied the antiviral properties of plants for many years. In this comprehensive guide, he profiles the plants that have proven most effective in fighting viral infections and provides in-depth instructions for preparing and using formulations to address the most common infections and strengthen immunity, safely and naturally. The updated 2nd edition includes an expanded guide to COVID-19, including a review of the most up-to-date medical research and the plant medicines that have been found to be most potent in preventing infection, lessening the impact of the virus on the body, and addressing longer-term effects and co-infections.

The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter, and Tonic Plants


Guido Mase - 2013
    Explains how 3 classes of wild plants--aromatics, bitters, and tonics--are uniquely adapted to work with our physiology because we co-evolved with them. Provides simple recipes to easily integrate these plants into meals as well as formulas for teas, spirits, and tinctures. Offers practical examples of plants in each of the 3 classes, from aromatic peppermint to bitter dandelion to tonic chocolate As people moved into cities and suburbs and embraced modern medicine and industrialized food, they lost their connection to nature, in particular to the plants with which humanity co-evolved. These plants are essential components of our physiologies--tangible reminders of cross-kingdom signaling--and key not only to vibrant physical health and prevention of illness but also to soothing and awakening the troubled spirit. Blending traditional herbal medicine with history, mythology, clinical practice, and recent findings in physiology and biochemistry, herbalist Guido Mase explores the three classes of plants necessary for the healthy functioning of our bodies and minds--aromatics, bitters, and tonics. He explains how bitter plants ignite digestion, balance blood sugar, buffer toxicity, and improve metabolism; how tonic plants normalize the functions of our cells and nourish the immune system; and how aromatic plants relax tense organs, nerves, and muscles and stimulate sluggish systems, whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. He reveals how wild plants regulate our heart variability rate and adjust the way DNA is read by our cells, controlling the self-destructive tendencies that lead to chronic inflammation or cancer. Offering examples of ancient and modern uses of wild plants in each of the 3 classes--from aromatic peppermint to bitter dandelion to tonic chocolate--Mase provides easy recipes to integrate them into meals as seasonings and as central ingredients in soups, stocks, salads, and grain dishes as well as including formulas for teas, spirits, and tinctures. Providing a framework for safe and effective use as well as new insights to enrich the practice of advanced herbalists, he shows how healing wild plant deficiency syndrome --that is, adding wild plants back into our diets--is vital not only to our health but also to our spiritual development.

The Home Apothecary: Cold Spring Apothecary's Cookbook of Hand-Crafted Remedies Recipes for the Hair, Skin, Body, and Home


Stacey Dugliss-Wesselman - 2013
    They are already stocking their pantries and fridges with natural, whole foods and relying on real ingredients for better health. The Home Apothecary offers fresh ideas for caring for the body on the outside, too. It features a bounty of recipes: more than 75 original, natural, and absolutely chemical-free body care products from face masks to bug repellent to soothing lotions. Cold Spring Apothecary’s nationally recognized green-luxury beauty and home goods formulas will be taught in such a way that readers will soon be experimenting on their own.

Instructions for a New Life


Markus Rothkranz - 2013
    So many people are unhappy in today's world because they are caught in a cycle of just trying to survive, and end up doing things they really don't want to do to pay for things they really don't want. They seek comfort in the wrong foods, wrong relationships, wrong jobs and destructive habits, just so they can make it another few hours. People everywhere are feeling a great emptiness, alone in a vast world with little direction or meaning.This book is the trumpet call for a new life, one with meaning and purpose. People want to be wanted. They want to be needed and appreciated. This can be fulfilled by having something to offer the world. Greatness comes from inner strength to make a difference in the world, no matter what it takes. "Instructions for a New Life" starts with letting go… of all the old thought patterns, destructive habits, relationships and material things we cling to. It teaches us not to fear loss by finding an inner peace that transcends our paranoid thoughts, and then cleanse our life and body, literally, through mind and body detoxing and proper diet. Markus is known the world over for showing people how to heal themselves of almost anything, at home, for almost no money, simply by eating what nature intended, and letting go of negativity and fear. This book has step-by-step instructions, recipes and explanations.Now with a new body and mind, we need a purpose. Everyone is here for a reason. Every person that's ever changed history had the courage to follow their personal inner voice, despite the odds against them. Some started with nothing but a loincloth and ended up changing the world. This is our birthright. It is our destiny. This book will change your life.It finally answers the ageless question- What are we, and why are we here? If you want the answer, here it is. Your life is about to change forever.

Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism: Elite Herbs and Natural Compounds for Mastering Stress, Aging, and Chronic Disease


Donald R. Yance - 2013
     Yance’s holistic approach, called the Eclectic Triphasic Medical System (ETMS), is based on extensive scientific research, more than 25 years of clinical practice, and excellent results with thousands of patients. It centers on four interconnected groups of health tools: botanical formulations, nutritional supplements, diet, and lifestyle. Defining three categories for adaptogenic herbs, he explains how formulations should combine herbs from each category to create a synergistic effect. He provides more than 60 monographs on herbs and nutritional compounds as well as custom combinations to revitalize the immune system, build cardiovascular health, protect brain function, manage weight, and support cancer treatment. He explains the interplay of endocrine health, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, thyroid function, and stress in the aging process and reveals how adaptogenic treatment begins at the cellular level with the mitochondria--the microscopic energy producers present in every living cell. Emphasizing spirituality, exercise, and diet in addition to herbal treatments and nutritional supplements, Yance’s complete lifestyle program explores how to enhance energy production in the body and subdue the proinflammatory state that lays the groundwork for nearly every degenerative disease, taking you from merely surviving to thriving.

Culpeper's Complete herbal : to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities


Nicholas Culpeper - 2013
    444 Pages.

Herbal Medications: An Evidence-Based Review


A. José Lança - 2013
    The purpose of this course is to increase healthcare professionals' awareness of the potential risks and benefits of HMs from an evidence-based perspective and promote the planned inclusion of HM use in patients' medical history. This course should allow healthcare professionals to discuss HMs in a knowledgeable and succinct manner with patients and colleagues. In addition, members of the public may use this course to enhance their personal knowledge of the subject matter presented. Upon completion of this course, you should be able to: 1. Discuss the prevalent current and historical use of HMs in North America. 2. Explain the need to inquire about the use of HMs during preparation of a patient's medical history, including components of a culturally sensitive assessment. 3. Discuss the pharmacology (i.e., pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, toxicology) of HMs. 4. Describe the differences between the process of development and approval of HMs versus conventional medications, and the implications of health claims and therapeutic efficacy of HMs. 5. Outline the merits and limitations associated with the application of contemporary scientific principles and methodologies (i.e., evidence-based medicine) to assess the efficacy and safety of HMs. 6. Discuss, based on scientific and conventional medical principles, the pharmacologic properties, efficacy, safety, toxicology, therapeutic indications, and recommended dosages of saw palmetto and St. John's wort. 7. Describe the potential risks and benefits of ginkgo. 8. Identify key characteristics of ginseng. 9. Discuss the use of echinacea and kava, including potential adverse effects. 10. Review the use of garlic and valerian as HMs. 11. Outline the potential medical uses of andrographis and English ivy leaf. 12. Analyze the available evidence for the use of peppermint, ginger, soy, and chamomile. This 10-hour continuing education course is available for download for professional development; if continuing education credit is desired, please see instructions included in eBook.

Llewellyn's 2014 Herbal Almanac: Herbs for Growing & Gathering, Cooking & Crafts, Health & Beauty, History, Myth & Lore


Llewellyn Publications - 2013
    Throw a nontraditional tea party with zesty flair. Add a spicy twist to your beer, wine, and liquor. There are hundreds of ways to benefit from nature's versatile plants inside Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac.This treasury of innovative herbal ideas spans gardening, cooking, crafts, health, beauty, and myth/lore. You'll learn how to improve indoor air quality, create a "golden years" herb garden for seniors, keep invasive herbs in check, and soak up vibrational healing from roses, daisies, and other flowers. Discover how to use herbs as preservatives, and make your own homemade vinaigrettes and low-carb vegetarian dishes. Create herbal dyes and beautiful handcrafted paper speckled with seeds or flowers.From enchanting primroses to the many faces of avocado, this practical almanac is your gateway to the herbal kingdom.

How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants


Deb Soule - 2013
    Deb has taken her twenty-five-plus years as a professional medicinal plant gardener and her life-time love of the earth and the plant people, and come up with something very special.This is a must-have book for anyone interested in gardening or the plant people. I promise you this book will be well read, well worn, and well loved. --Karyn Sanders, Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine"Deb Soule is overflowing with the healing wisdom of the plant world distilled through many years of study, experience and observation. Her reverence and respect for nature and deep intuitive capacities are evident in every page of this book. What a gift! --Robert Karp, Director of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Assocoation"Way beyond food, flowers, or medicine .... here is gardening as the mindful rhythm in harmony with all living souls." --C.R. Lawn, FEDCO Seeds"Herbalist Deb Soule offers the reader a beautifully written, heart-centered gardening book that reads as much like a prayer as it does a practical guide for all gardeners, new and experienced; sure to awaken and inspire one to explore creative ways of tending the rich life held in a well-loved garden. The author shares wisdom gleaned through years of cultivating not only soil and plants, but also her research and work with the pollinators, biodynamic practices and favorite tools used in growing simple herbal remedies to nourish the gardener as they heal the Earth. Honoring traditions, ancestors and the sacredness of carrying on the work of the wise herbalists that came before us, Deb reminds us of the blessing of being called to this work!" --Kate Gilday, Herbalist, Woodland Essence"The reader will find this book endowed with glorious offerings of rich nectar. It makes me want to go out and turn the compost pile." --Richo Ceck, Horizon HerbsContentsA gardener's Notebook Biodynamics: Agriculture i Service of the Earth and Humanity Living in Harmony with the Seasons Energetic and Elemental Associations of Plant Parts Growing, Harvesting, and Using Medicinal Herbs

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


Jesse Wolf Hardin - 2013
    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?"

Medicine Generations: Natural Native American Medicines Traditional to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans Tribe


Misty D. Cook - 2013
    Beginning with the history of these Medicines through her family tree of Wolf Clan Medicine people, this book is a guide for learning about the Medicines and how to use them. Gathering and identifying these plants and trees, preparing them through teas, tinctures, salves, and poultices is described. An importance of the spirituality is touched upon as well as how to use and prepare these Medicines. Color photos of these plants and trees in full bloom captured at the exact gathering stage are shared so the reader can easily identify these Medicines growing naturally as well as a detailed description of them and complete directions for the use of these Medicines for healing and health maintenance.

Baneful!


Deborah J. Martin - 2013
    Without research, many think that herbs are safe. Many are, yet many can be just as deadly as a dose of arsenic.Most everyone knows Socrates died from ingesting Hemlock. Have you heard about the Celtic chieftain who committed suicide by Yew? How about the duels between rivals who ate just half of a poison bean?From Abrus precatorius to Viscum album, Master Herbalist Deborah Martin takes us on a journey of discovery … ninety-five herbs that, while they had or have their medicinal and magical uses, can be deadly.

Fragrance and Wellbeing: Plant Aromatics and Their Influence on the Psyche


Jennifer Peace Rhind - 2013
    This book explores the impact of fragrance on the psyche from biological, anthropological, perfumery and aromatherapy viewpoints.Beginning with an exploration of our olfactory system and a discussion of the language of odour, the author examines the ways in which fragrance can influence our perceptions and experiences. She introduces us to a broad range of fragrance types - woody, resinous, spicy, herbaceous, agrestic, floral and citrus, as well as the attars that form part of Unani Tibb medicine. Traditional and contemporary uses and the mood-enhancing properties of fragrance types are presented. The book then provides an overview of the theoretical and philosophical frameworks that have been used to analyse how and why we choose fragrance. Finally readers are given guidance on how to cultivate their olfactory palate, which reveals a new dimension in the use of fragrance to enhance wellbeing.This book offers a wealth of knowledge on plant aromatics and the powerful influence of fragrance on wellbeing. It will be of particular interest to aromatherapists, perfumers, psychotherapists, ethnobotanists and anthropologists.

Decoding the DAO: Nine Lessons in Daoist Meditation: A Complete and Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Meditation


Tom Bisio - 2013
    

Manifesting True Desires Learning from Arianrhod and the Tree of Life


Alfred Willowhawk - 2013
    This book has been brought forward to teach a whole new way to work with your own powers of manifestation in every day life and to assist you in obtaining your own truest desires.

The Charmers' Psalter


Gemma Gary - 2013
    We encounter the Psalms within the rites and talismanic magic of the grimoires, and their prolific employment within Charming, Cunning and folk-magical tradition. Herein the methods of their use are varied and incorporate magical acts of utterance, inscription, bottling, burning, sprinkling, pouring and burial in conjunction with various substances and materials.Serving a vast array of needs, principally for healing, protection and the averting of evil, but also long employed within acts of cursing, the Psalms are an established feature of traditional operative magic yet also an indicium of engaging with the world of spirit, the divine and the unseen:“Whilst the traditional magical uses of the Psalms may appear to be almost entirely for the serving of material needs and desires, rather than for purposes of spiritual advancement, they are possessed of great beauty, and in one's recourse to them in times of distress and great difficulty there is to be attained a moment of contemplative comfort, and an acknowledgement of the immanence of the divine presence; turned to for spiritual strength and assistance.”(From the Introduction and Manner of Use)The Charmers' Psalter is born from a personal working collection of magical Psalms and other verbal charms, here presented in a convenient 'pocket book' format (100mm x 150mm), so that it may always be on hand to the contemporary Charmer for reference should need of it arise.Limited to an edition of 250 hand numbered and signed examples, The Charmers' Psalter is case bound using recycled leather fibres in replica of green Morocco, and foil blocked in copper with black end papers and black and gold head and tail bands.Contents: Pagination: 105 pages, on 120 gsm cream paper stock. Introduction and Manner of UseThe Magical PsalmsFor the Exorcism & Blessing of the Working Ground For the Opening of the Rites and Workings of the Wise For Blessing In Thanks for Blessings & Answers ReceivedTo Avert Evil To Defend against Enemies & Return CursesFor Safety Amidst Evil Against Slander To Expose Slanderers, Liars and PersecutorsTo Undo the Damage Caused by Slanderers Against Evil, Plotting & Vengeful EnemiesAgainst Evil Spirits and People Against persecutionAgainst MagicFor PeaceFor Fear For ReconciliationFor Joy and to Dispel MelancholyTo Hasten the Healing of the SickBlood StoppingFor Broken BonesFor all Physical InjuriesFor Aches and PainsFor Aches in the Head or BackFor the EyesFor Money and Material NeedsAgainst PovertyFor Success in BusinessTo be FortunateFor the Respect of High PersonsFor PowerTo Cause LoveTo Curse Enemies & OppressorsTo Strike Enemies with TerrorFor Vengeance upon EnemiesTo Punish the HarmfulTo Return Evil upon EnemiesFor the Destruction of Enemies & Gain-Seeking PersecutorsTo Kill EnemiesTo Raise Dark Assistance against EnemiesOther Verbal CharmsFor ToothacheTo Charm a SprainFor Bone-SettingFor Blood-StoppingFor a Burn or ScaldTo Charm WartsFor Illness in GeneralAgainst EpidemicsA Witches’ Herb-Gathering Charm for Healing PurposesA Herb-Gathering Charm for Pimpernel against WitchcraftA Herb-Gathering Charm for VervainA Morning Charm against Thieves & EnemiesA Suffolk Charm Against ThievesA Scotch Charm to Protect the Household by NightProtection from AssaultA Welsh Cursing Charm

Secret Herbal Recipes for Horses


Fiona Adams - 2013
    Herbal recipes known only to a few are finally revealed! This easy to read book contains a great variety of herbal recipes to use on your horse. ‘Secret Herbal Recipes for Horses’ introduces you to the various types of external herbal remedies and then shows you step by step how to make them and how to use them. Learn how to make herbal ointments, oils, liniments, lotions, poultices, shampoos and more. ‘Secret Herbal Recipes for Horses’ contains a section on basic ailments and which these herbal treatments might be useful. It also contains a ‘materia medica’ (a list of herbs) which tells you the traditional uses for each herb and how to grow the herbs if you wish to.“Secret Herbal Recipes for Horses’ has been written after many of my clients have asked me to help them make their own preparations for horses. This exciting new ebook, empowers you, the horse owner, to support the health of your horses.