The A-Z Guide to Healing Herbal Remedies: Over 100 Herbs and Common Ailments - Softcover

Elias, Jason; Masline, Shelagh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440220610 ISBN 13: 9780440220619

Publisher: Dell, 1995

Synopsis

Herbalism Is a wonderful alternative medicine that can treat both symptoms and the underlying causes of disease. For hundreds of years, the Infusions and decoctions of roots, leaves, barks, and flowers of common plants have helped the body to heal itself.

About this title

About the Author:

Jason Elias works in private practice as an acupuncturist and herbalist in New York state. He earned a master's degree in psychology at the New School for Social Research before joining first the psychiatric staff of South Oaks Hospital in Amityville and then the Long Island Jewish Hospital Center. After studying Gestalt therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, Elias traveled to the Far East to work with the healing masters of China, Japan, the Philippines, and India. Upon returning to the United States he received licensure in acupunture and traditional Chinese medicine.

Shelagh Masline is a writer and editor who specializes in health and lifestyle topics. Her published works include The Johns Hopkins Family Medical Guide to Back Pain; Aromatherapy: Healing with Essential Oils; and Prescription and Non-Prescription Medications for Children: What Parents Need to Know.

From Library Journal:

At first glance, Ody's Home Herbal looks like a coffee-table book in which the artistic effect outweighs the substance. But this profusely illustrated guide is packed with information, creating a real "visual dictionary" of herbal remedies. While most such guides mention terms like infusions, decoctions, tinctures, compresses, and ointments, this book uses excellent photographs to reveal the actual process of preparing them. Equally detailed illustrations track herbs through their stages of growth and preservation. There is clear instruction here on the harvesting, preparation, and therapeutic properties of 60 herbs, with particular attention given to specific ailments and the needs of people at different stages of life. The A to Z Guide to Healing Herbal Remedies covers much of the same material, but in a quick reference format and without illustrations. The focus is different: this book lists herbs that are already prepared in the form of capsules, teas, extracts, oils, and tinctures and are commercially available in drugstores and supermarkets. There are two listings, one by ailment, one by herb, with coverage of dosage, benefits, precautions, and preventative and curative functions. These two books complement each other in purpose and information presented; much of the content is not repetitive (e.g., Ody covers bedwetting, while Elias and Masline cover AIDS; Ody lists herbs alphabetically by botanical name and Elias and Masline by common name). A library would do well to have several books on herbal medicine. Ody's is essential for libraries having no illustrated herbal books; Elias and Masline's meets the needs of patrons interested in convenience rather than the painstaking preparation of herbs.
Valerie Vaughan, Hatfield P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0440220610
• ISBN 13: 9780440220619
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320