Clinical Herbalism: Plant Wisdom from East and West | 1 Edition

Details about Clinical Herbalism: Plant Wisdom from East and West:

• Integration of Western and Chinese herbal therapeutics presents health challenges from an energetic context, making it especially useful for those with minimal Chinese Medicine training.
• Complete coverage addresses a wide variety of topics, including theory, wildcrafting, apothecary, herbal remedy-making, client interaction, and creating and dispensing formulas.
• Compendium of Western and Chinese herbs covers usages, contraindications, and herb-drug interactions with an emphasis on herbal safety.
• Comparison of Western diseases and Chinese syndromes helps pinpoint which herbs and formulas best match a person’s health condition.
• Case histories present specific therapeutic principles and suggested formulas on conditions commonly faced by herbalists.
• Explicit instructions detail how to make salves, lotions, and syrups, plus tinctures, percolations, and dual extractions, including calculations, proportions, and worksheets.
• Functional medicine principles address the root causes of common chronic Western diseases.