Bøger af Thomas Easley

The definitive, full-color guide to making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, with instructions for everything from harvesting to administering low-cost, DIY remedies. This comprehensive, full-color guide provides detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, including practical tips and numerous effective formulas developed and tested by the authors, both expert herbalists with years of experience. Readers who appreciate the health-giving properties of herbal medicines but are discouraged by the high price of commercial products can now make their own preparations for a fraction of the cost. The authors tell you everything you need to know about harvesting, preparing, and administering herbs in many different forms, including fresh, bulk dried herbs, capsules, extracts in water, alcohol, glycerin, vinegar and oil, and even preparations like essential oils and flower essences. The book also covers topical applications of herbs as salves, lotions, poultices, tooth powders, ear drops, and more, and includes an extensive chapter on herbal hydrotherapy. The Modern Herbal Dispensary explains why different preparations of the same herb will obtain better results, demonstrating how capsules, teas, tinctures, or glycerites of the same plant will not have exactly the same effect on the body. Leading herbalists Thomas Easley and Steven Horne have tested and proven the herbal formulas they offer, along with suggestions for treating more than one hundred illnesses. They lay out the principles of herbal formulation and also provide instructions on how to prepare single herbs, a procedure that has been largely ignored in other references. More comprehensive than any other guide, thoroughly researched, beautifully illustrated, and presented with ease of use in mind, this book will take its place as the premier reference for those who want to produce all the herbal remedies they need, and to save money in the process.

For the many years Plant Healer Quarterly has been published, our mission has been to inform, equip and empower a more naturally healthful world, including providing the fundamental skills and tools needed for developing the most effective medicinal herb practice possible. To this end, we have compiled a series of books for clinical practitioners and all those intending to treat their selves and others with botanicals, beginning with the huge first Herbal Clinician (Volume I), and including this 2nd volume and subsequent titles. Compiled here are an additional 33 original articles drawn from Plant Healer Quarterly issues and Class Essays ebooks, authored by 20 of the most insightful and compelling writers ever in the field of herbalism.Herbal Clinician II has been organized into three sections, covering: ApproachesIntake insights and protocol, placebos, success criteria, marginalized populations, integrating herbalism into the conventional medical system, and the intersection of nursing and plant medicineAssessmentSensory explorations, energetics, constitutional and humoral approaches, tongue assessment, and condition evaluationSkillsEssential science for herbalists, minimizing bias, red flag symptoms, blood work, lab values, herbal constituents, dosage, herb/drug interactions, contraindications, and patient compliance.