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The popularity of herbal medicine has exploded during the past decade, with herbal remedies becoming increasingly available in drugstores and even supermarkets. Prescription for Herbal Healing brings to herbal medicine the same in-depth, easy-to-understand information and accessible style that Prescription for Nutritional Healing successfully brought to diet and nutritional supplements. The book is divided into 3 parts for easy reference. Part 1 discusses the basic principles of herbal medicine and outlines the properties and characteristics of some 160 single herbs and 60 herbal combination formulas. Part 2 describes more than 150 common disorders from acne to yeast infection, conveniently arranged in alphabetical order, and names the herbal therapies that can be used in the treatment of those conditions. Part 3 is a guide to using various kinds of herbal and other alternative therapies. It includes self-diagnostic tests and boxed insets that offer detailed information on a wide variety of topics. Complete coverage of Chinese and ayurvedic herbs makes this volume comprehensive, and thorough scientific references lend it an authority not found in other herbal books. It is the definitive herbal resource, a necessity for any health-conscious consumer.
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Phyllis A Balch is co-author of the best-selling Prescription for Nutritional Healing and has been a leading nutritional counsellor and advocate of natural therapies for more than 2 decades. She is the founder and owner of the health food store "Good Things Naturally" in Greenfield, Indiana and frequently lectures on the subject of nutrition and natural healing.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The first part of this book lists herbs - some from Western, some from Chinese, some from Ayurvedic medicine, and also some Rainforest heerbs; while the second part of the book lists different health challenges and points to herbs that may be helpful.
This book has a lot of information on popular formulas - the formulas seem to be mainly from the Traditional Chinese Medicine; information on best way to take particular herbs, as different kinds of preparation are better for extracting different chemicals from the plants, there are suggestions on how much herbs to take and how often during the day, as well as additional comments that may include interaction with other herbs or medications, how the effectiveness of the herb may express in the body, and what foods it may be good to take or avoid when taking specific herbs.
The author of this book seems to have her selection of favorite herbs, so you may find certain herbs and herbal combinations repeated often and they may work very well there, but you may also cross-reference the information with herbal suggestions from other herbal healing books. For example, there are a number of herbs which have been popular for helping people suffering from cancer, which are not listed in this book - like 4-herb tea (sometimes offered in variation as 8-herb tea) or Essiac, or graviola herb.
Still, this is one of my favorite books on herbal healing and I am grateful for the information the author has shared here.
This book has a lot of information on popular formulas - the formulas seem to be mainly from the Traditional Chinese Medicine; information on best way to take particular herbs, as different kinds of preparation are better for extracting different chemicals from the plants, there are suggestions on how much herbs to take and how often during the day, as well as additional comments that may include interaction with other herbs or medications, how the effectiveness of the herb may express in the body, and what foods it may be good to take or avoid when taking specific herbs.
The author of this book seems to have her selection of favorite herbs, so you may find certain herbs and herbal combinations repeated often and they may work very well there, but you may also cross-reference the information with herbal suggestions from other herbal healing books. For example, there are a number of herbs which have been popular for helping people suffering from cancer, which are not listed in this book - like 4-herb tea (sometimes offered in variation as 8-herb tea) or Essiac, or graviola herb.
Still, this is one of my favorite books on herbal healing and I am grateful for the information the author has shared here.
12 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a good book for anyone that is geting intrested in this subject,some history and a good lay out make this a book i keep going back to.
This book also offers very good value,
This book also offers very good value,
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88 of 90 people found the following review helpful
The Herbal Twin Has Arrived!!
19 May 2002
Format:Paperback
We all loved the book "Prescription for Nutritional Healing" by James F. Balch and Phyllis A. Balch, and now comes its long awaited twin; The same winning format, the same width of knowledge, and this time - the best herbs to treat (almost) every ailment. Besides an overview of the principles of herbal healing, the first part of the book describes a long list of herbs that are mentioned throughout the book, the scientific evidence of their benefit, and various considerations for use, alone and/or with other herbs. However, this part is missing a listing of active constituents (future edition?). The second part excells in bringing an alphabetical listing of various health conditions and summarizing, in a clear-cut table, the herbs that can be used, the doses, some ready formulas, and a short comment on action. I loved this format in the first book, and find myself praising this format in the present book. Need to treat an ailment? - just open the right page, and the table of beneficial herbs is right in front of your eyes. The story goes on - "Herbs to Avoid", general "Recommendations" and "Considerations" - all written by a super-expert in the field. Amazon found a very strange way to show us the contents of a book ("look inside") but never exposed "real" pages. Just give a customer a chance to look at a page from the second part of this book and he will know what this book is all about. In the third part I found the information I needed to prepare my own herbal extracts. The tips are invaluable and the various techniques for herbal healing are very well discussed. Ms. Balch made our life much easier and healthier by introducing two superb books where in a glance one can match nutritional healing with herbal healing for a wide array of common health problems. It's time to go one further step - to move both books to the CD format...
66 of 71 people found the following review helpful
an excellent book
30 Jan 2005
Format:Paperback
I highly recommend this book (I give 5 stars to few books) to anyone interested in herbs and herbal remedies from a more scientifically based approach. I found that her citation of studies and use of them to describe the actual effects of the herbs helpful, whereas most herb books are filled solely with arguments from tradition or some metaphysical bias. Although tradition, or any other tact, may actually be correct sometimes, I find it unconvincing alone. I like to know that ginseng, for example, has been shown in studies to relieve stress. I don't want to read an author only mention how it is a magic herb that will bring one closer to a certain positive force of the universe (apologies for the sarcasm). She does include, naturally, traditional uses (by multiple cultures) and their histories, but her descriptions/prescriptions aren't solely based on them. She does a wonderful job and has come up with a book I'd been seeking for a long time. She has obviously put a lot of careful time into this work, and ended up with what will surely earn its shelf life.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
A wonderfully comprehensive work
22 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
I found a flyspeck on page 407 so I'm giving this book 1 star---No, this is quite simply the most complete and the most reader friendly book on herbal medicine in print today, Phyllis Balch's finest effort. Free from the biases of authors who are selling particular products or promoting their in-store information kiosks, Prescription for Herbal Healing was obviously written to help real people get well with simple remedies at the lowest possible expense in the shortest possible time with the least risk of side effects (and when I checked MedLine, there were no reports of adverse results from using baby oil). I like it even better than the Prescription for Nutritional Healing books that are, for reasons I can't understand, for better known. Even if you think you've seen it all in herbalism, buy this book.
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