Natural Healing with HerbsAcclaimed as the most comprehensive work of its kind, this book details in simple terms the properties and uses of 120 of the most common herbs and lists comprehensive therapies for more than 140 common ailments. Over 150,000 copies sold! |
Contents
THE NATURE OF HEALTH AND DISEASE | 1 |
THE COMMONLY USED HERBS | 7 |
HERBAL THERAPIES AND THEIR APPLICATION | 13 |
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15 minutes 60 grains antipyretic antispasmodic astringent bark baths bayberry black cohosh bladder bleeding blood purification Body Parts Affected bowels carminative Cascara sagrada cayenne chaparral chronic circulation cleansing diet cold combined comfrey congestion constipation cool Coughs cramps daily ½ dandelion Decoction Decoction Tincture demulcent diaphoresis diaphoretic diarrhea digestion diuretic Drink drops three echinacea Emmenagogue enema excellent External fevers Fluid Extract Fluid Extract Tincture Fomentation foods formula four times daily garlic ginger goldenseal healing heat hemorrhoids herbal herbs Hydrotherapy Indicated infections inflammations Infusion Infusion Infusion Tincture Internal intestines juice kidneys laxative Leukorrhea licorice root liver lobelia lungs mucus nerves nervine ounces pain parsley poultice Powder Tincture Preparation and Dosage Principal Therapy problems Properties remedy Salve seeds Simmer slippery elm sores Steep stimulation stomach symptoms Syrup tablespoon tablets teaspoon three times daily three to four Tincture tion tonic tonification toxins treat vegetables warm water