By Graeme Tobyn,Alison Denham,Margaret Whitelegg,Marije Rowling

ISBN-10: 0443103445

ISBN-13: 9780443103445

ISBN-10: 1848193068

ISBN-13: 9781848193062

The Western natural Tradition presents a entire and significant exploration of using plant drugs via 2000 years of historical past from Dioscorides to the current day. It follows all the 27 herbs via quite a lot of key resources from eu, Arabic and American traditions together with Greek, Roman and Renaissance texts. A wealthy dialogue of the historic texts is balanced with present software and research.

The herbs were chosen at the foundation of universal use via training herbalists.

Each illustrated monograph contains:

Species, identity and botanical description

A learn of the characterisation and medicinal use of the vegetation constantly drawn

from featured herbals including the authors’ personal translations from the Latin

Assessment of previous and present texts within the transmission of natural knowledge

Consideration of conventional therapeutics, together with humoral and physiomedical

approaches

Suggestions in the direction of a contemporary experiential procedure via Goethean method

Current facts on pharmacological constituents

Review of facts on safety

Recommendations for inner and exterior makes use of, prescribing and dosage

  • Excellent illustrations accompany each one monograph to help learning
  • First booklet to hide broader historical
  • perspective and discussions of matters surrounding each one herb
  • Written through major specialists who're popular within the field
  • Includes a few monographs of which there's little fabric already available
  • The bibliographic facts supplied may help functions for registration of natural Medicinal items below the provisions of the conventional natural Medicinal Product Directive

  • An very good worthwhile source for everybody attracted to natural medicine

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