HERBAL MEDICINE FOR MODERN LIFE by Ruth Blanding
Nonfiction, Self-help,
4****
Blurb: Protect, heal, and revitalize your health with herbal remedies crafted to treat ailments from modern living. In today’s busy world, our disconnection from the earth has led to an overreliance on health interventions that don’t always work. With Herbal Medicine for Modern Life, you’ll discover the enduring wisdom of plant medicine with an herbalist who draws on her connection to the ancestors and nature to support health and wellness. With her expert advice, you’ll learn how to benefit from the folkloric use of plants: how to use them to heal the root causes of many modern ailments and bring you back to feeling balanced, healthy, and whole again.
- Ancient Remedies for Modern Needs. Learn to tap into traditional medicine for modern health issues like anxiety, allergies, hormone imbalances, and more.
- Approachable, Affordable Herbalism. Make safe and powerful herbal medicine in the comfort of your home with easy-to-source medicinal plants and everyday tools.
- Profiles of Powerful Medicinal Plants. Discover more than 35 medicinal herbs with photos and details about therapeutic actions, contraindications, and healing qualities.
- Wide Range of Herbal Remedies. Follow step-by-step recipes to craft infusions, tinctures, syrups, balms, powders, and other common herbal preparations.
Thoughts: If you’ve ever thought of trying herbal remedies to cure what ails you, this is a good place to start. The introduction alone is comprehensive with insights and cautions about the world of herbal medicine. She goes into the history of using plant-based remedies as well as cautions like “if you’re allergic to this, don’t use that” and working with your physician/herbalist if you are on medications.
There are two basic sections: The herbs and then the problems/remedies. In the herbal section, she describes each of the 35 plants in detail, what part of the plant is used, cautions, allergens, and color pictures. In the remedy section, she gives some common problems, like migraines or headaches, what to use, and how to prepare and use them. I will note that there are a lot of steps to some of these remedies. And they use a lot more than just one or two herbs. She also goes into different ways to use them: tea, capsules, tinctures, syrups, etc. And stresses that this is not a cure for a serious ailment, that you need to work with your medical team if you want to use them because there can be serious contraindications with some.
Overall, I thought this a good basic book with a lot of great information.
Recommended.
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