Botanical Body Care: Herbs and Natural Healing for Your Whole Body
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1879384671 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 259 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
If you want to take better care of yourself and your loved ones, join the amazing partnership between plants and people! This comprehensive guide shows you how to revitalize and balance your body using the restorative power of herbs as both food and medicine. It will deepen your understanding of how herbs work with your body to facilitate healing, and provide all the herbal formulas you need to cleanse your organ systems, strengthen your immune response, prevent many common illnesses, and treat any that may arise.
JavaBean said Wonderful book - highly recommended!. Crisp, intelligent, down to earth, practical - I find this to be a perfect balance between a lay person's book and something more academic. As a result, it's highly informative and yet easy to, er, digest, with lots of tips and tricks, thorough explanations of why things work the way they do, and fun recipes and other things to try. A rare integrated approach to health and healing. I would have this on my shelf for anyone wanting to stay healthy or dealing with a specific health issue - either wanting to try something outside of or in tandem with western medical practices. Lots of "old world" wisdom here. Highly recommended.. An impressive and thoroughly 'reader friendly' 259-page compendium of herbal medicine Midwest Book Review In "Botanical Body Care: Herbs And Natural Healing For Your Whole Body", practicing herbalist, teacher, and nutritional consultant Karin C. Uphoff shows how anyone can increase their vitality, strengthen their immune system, relieve physical and psychological stress, prevent illness, and treat common ailments through the use of natural plants and thereby avoid the harmful side effects (and expense!) of conventional pharmaceuticals. "Botanical Body Care' shows how readily available herbs can be easily made into tinctures, extracts, salves, and flavorful teas which have a long and honored history as a general, effective natural remedy for a gr. "Botanical care with items you can actually find" according to Harold McFarland. A basic guide to using herbs for health purposes, this book contains many easy to make recipes for specific problems. The various body systems covered include intestinal, digestive, respiratory, urinary, reproductive, nervous, lymph, and the immune system. The author discusses each system, common problems and herbal recipes that can be used to treat various problems. A particularly interesting Appendix includes information on how to use herbs commonly found in most kitchens to benefit your health.If you want a basic primer on using herbs that is not so complex as to make it impossible to comprehend and yet not so basic that it really is usel