Your Brain on Plants: Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe--And Proven--Medicinal Plants and Herbs

ISBN-13: 9781615194469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Elaine Perry; Nicolette Perry

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As scientists come to better understand how the brain works, the gap between traditional and alternative medicine is narrowing fast. Your Brain on Plants, cowritten by a neuroscientist and an expert in medicinal plants, describes the beneficial effects of more than 70 plants on memory, mind, and mood--from St. John's wort for depression and lavender for stress, to sage for cognitive function and frankincense for an "herbal high."

Expert authors and mother-daughter team Elaine and Nicolette Perry share insights into their own research on how plants can help us sleep, reduce stress, improve memory, and simply feel better, in body and mind. Your Brain on Plants is organized to allow those experiencing anxiety, sleeplessness, or even pain to go directly to the appropriate chapter, where they'll find orienting background on appropriate medicinal plants, including how plant compounds work on different parts of the brain.

It's simple to implement these remedies with make-at-home recipes for teas, tinctures, balms, and cordials; plus foods naturally containing ingredients proven to alleviate symptoms appear throughout, along with complementary exercises such as meditating (on a chamomile lawn), qi gong (in a wildflower meadow), and walking (in woodland). An appendix includes the scientific documentation.