Herbal Medicine and Botanical Medical Fads
ISBN: 9780789011480 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The positive meaning of the term fad is argued in the introduction to this volume on the use and history of herbal and botanical medicines. The herbs and related terms (including FDA, herbal education, herb incense, etc.) are arranged alphabetically. Each entry provides a description of the herb, the history of its use, present common uses, resea
The positive meaning of the term fad is argued in the introduction to this volume on the use and history of herbal and botanical medicines. The herbs ...
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Herbal Medicine and Botanical Medical Fads
ISBN: 9780789011497 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Find all the information you need on herbs and spices in one place Herbal Medicine and Botanical Medical Fads is an A-to-Z reference book written in a straightforward style that s informative enough for library use but informal enough for general reading. This essential guide takes a practical look at the popular uses of herbs and spices, presented in an easy-to-use format. The book is a refreshing alternative to the how-to guides, cookbooks, and picture books usually found on the subject.From alfalfa to ginseng to yellow dock, more than 100 entries are included, featuring...
Find all the information you need on herbs and spices in one place Herbal Medicine and Botanical Medical Fads is an A-to-Z reference book wr...
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Ayurvedic Herbs : A Clinical Guide to the Healing Plants of Traditional Indian Medicine
ISBN: 9780789017673 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A single-source reference on the most important and best-investigated Ayurvedic herbs Ayurvedic Herbs examines clinical information available on more than 60 Ayurvedic herbs to determine how their use in traditional Indian medicine is supported by modern scientific study. Plants are grouped according to body systems and each entry includes a description, information on the source plant, distribution and traditional use, active chemical constituents, relevant pharmacology, and details of clinical tests and safety findings. This unique book also includes a brief history of Ayurveda, a history...
A single-source reference on the most important and best-investigated Ayurvedic herbs Ayurvedic Herbs examines clinical information available on more ...
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963,29 zł |
Ayurvedic Herbs: A Clinical Guide to the Healing Plants of Traditional Indian Medicine
ISBN: 9780789017680 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A single-source reference on the most important and best-investigated Ayurvedic herbs Ayurvedic Herbs examines clinical information available on more than 60 Ayurvedic herbs to determine how their use in traditional Indian medicine is supported by modern scientific study. Plants are grouped according to body systems and each entry includes a description, information on the source plant, distribution and traditional use, active chemical constituents, relevant pharmacology, and details of clinical tests and safety findings. This unique book also includes a brief history of Ayurveda, a history...
A single-source reference on the most important and best-investigated Ayurvedic herbs Ayurvedic Herbs examines clinical information available on more ...
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275,92 zł |
Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs : Medicinal Herbs for Treating Psychological and Neurological Problems
ISBN: 9780789018588 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Find out how plant-derived drugs react with your brain to produce either healing or harmful results The Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs will give you a better understanding of herbal products that have psychological effects. The book explores how they work, how effective they are, and what is known about their safety. Geared towards non-specialist professionals and curious individuals, this guide shows how herbal preparations can affect the brain, mental state, and behavior of a user and includes treatment methods, tables, illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography.The Concise...
Find out how plant-derived drugs react with your brain to produce either healing or harmful results The Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs will gi...
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The Healing Power of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes
ISBN: 9780789022011 / Angielski / Twarda / 842 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two specialists in traditional Chinese medicine (both trained in China) have written an accessible and thorough guide to its theory and practical applications. Initial chapters describe the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, its relative benefits in comparison to western medicine, the preparation of herbal remedies, and the 138 most comm
Two specialists in traditional Chinese medicine (both trained in China) have written an accessible and thorough guide to its theory and practical appl...
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859,15 zł |
The Healing Power of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes
ISBN: 9780789022028 / Angielski / Miękka / 846 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An easy to follow introduction to the history and fundamentals of traditional Chinese medicine. It clearly explains the basics of this unique medical system and describes in detail the therapeutic properties and use of 138 medicinal herbs.
An easy to follow introduction to the history and fundamentals of traditional Chinese medicine. It clearly explains the basics of this unique medical ...
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416,50 zł |
Herbal Voices: American Herbalism Through the Words of American Herbalists
ISBN: 9780789022035 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how traditional herbal practitioners are responding to the sudden, massive popularity of herbal medicine
Herbal Voices: American Herbalism Through the Words of American Herbalists examines how herbal practitioners who started in the 1960s and 1970s are reacting to the mainstream popularity of herbal medicine today. This unique book features interviews with 20 of America's most prominent herbalists--focusing on their careers, their beliefs, and their perspectives on the contemporary herbal product boom in recent years. Also included is important information on herbal organizations,... Learn how traditional herbal practitioners are responding to the sudden, massive popularity of herbal medicine
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Herbal Voices : American Herbalism Through the Words of American Herbalists
ISBN: 9780789022042 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through interviews with 20 leading herbalists from across the US, this title explores the roles of science and folklore in modern herbalism, the endangered plant crisis, spirituality in herbal healing, and much more.
Through interviews with 20 leading herbalists from across the US, this title explores the roles of science and folklore in modern herbalism, the endan...
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255,09 zł |
Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies
ISBN: 9780789022318 / Angielski / Miękka / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it." -- Samuel Johnson
The Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies helps you find reliable online resources for the information you need about herbs used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including cancer, heart disease, depression, and AIDS. This easy-to-use consumer guide will help you steer clear of misleading--and potentially harmful--information that often amounts to nothing more than a thinly veiled product advertisement, as you search for the accurate and up-to-date news, facts, and advice that are out... "The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it." -- Samuel Johnson
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239,46 zł |
Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium
ISBN: 9780789025302 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Know which botanical medicines are effective--and which to avoid--in an instant
Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium contains the profiles of about 200 important and commonly used medicinal herbs. This short, concise resource is translated, complete revised, and updated from the German compendium Arzneidrogenprofile (2000) and was largely edited by the late Varro E. Tyler before his death in 2001. With this guide, pharmacists and health practitioners will be able to quickly find information on medicinal plants and directions for their use. This compendium incorporates... Know which botanical medicines are effective--and which to avoid--in an instant
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Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium
ISBN: 9780789025319 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Know which botanical medicines are effective--and which to avoid--in an instant Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium contains the profiles of about 200 important and commonly used medicinal herbs. This short, concise resource is translated, complete revised, and updated from the German compendium "Arzneidrogenprofile" (2000) and was largely edited by the late Varro E. Tyler before his death in 2001. With this guide, pharmacists and health practitioners will be able to quickly find information on medicinal plants and directions for their use.This compendium incorporates important botanicals from both...
Know which botanical medicines are effective--and which to avoid--in an instant Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium contains the profiles of about 200 impor...
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The Power of Probiotics: Improving Your Health with Beneficial Microbes
ISBN: 9780789029010 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Power of Probiotics is a consumer-friendly guide to the selection and use of probiotics that have been proven effective in the prevention and treatment of human diseases. This jargon-free reference resource provides practical advice on how and when to use probiotics and how to select the best commercially available products, based on usefulness, quality, and safety, to lower the risk of disease and maintain a positive health image. The book offers objective information on evaluating product claims, making sense of regulations and labeling, and sorting through manufacturing and marketing...
The Power of Probiotics is a consumer-friendly guide to the selection and use of probiotics that have been proven effective in the prevention and trea...
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192,60 zł |
Witch Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon
ISBN: 9780806511740 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon in search of medicinal plant lore more than 40 years ago. Her engrossing adventure story is an inspiring plea for civilization to save the plants and people who know how to use them before they are destroyed forever. For this newly revised edition, Maxwell catalogues plants mentioned in the text and their medicinal uses.
Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon in search of medicinal plant lore more than 40 years ago. Her engrossing adventure story is an inspiring plea ...
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Hildegard's Healing Plants: From Her Medieval Classic Physica
ISBN: 9780807021095 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medieval saint, mystic, healer, and visionary-Hildegard von Bingen has made a comeback. She is now popular in natural healing circles, in medieval and women's studies, and among those interested in investing the everyday with the spiritual. Hildegard's Healing Plants is a gift version and new translation of the 'Plant' section of Physica, Hildegard's classic work on health and healing. Hildegard comments on 230 plants and grains-most of which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food stores. In one of many entries on women's health, Hildegard writes, 'Also if a...
Medieval saint, mystic, healer, and visionary-Hildegard von Bingen has made a comeback. She is now popular in natural healing circles, in medieval and...
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Iroquois Medical Botany
ISBN: 9780815604648 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. This volume attempts to relate Iroquois cosmology to cultural themes by showing the inherent spiritual power of plants and how the Iroquois traditionally have used, and continue to use, plants as remedies.
A guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. This volume attempts to relate Iroquois cosmology to cultural th...
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A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present
ISBN: 9780822308799 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reissued as a companion edition to "Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine," this illustrated reference guide covers over 700 medicinal plants, of which more than 150 are readily obtainable in health food stores and other outlets. Based on the Appalachian herbal practice of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, each account of a plant includes the herbalist's comment, an assessment of the plant's efficacy, and current information on its chemical constituents and pharmacological effects. Unlike most herbal guides, this is a comprehensive, fully documented reference work that...
Reissued as a companion edition to "Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine," this illustrated reference guide covers over 7...
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A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present
ISBN: 9780822310198 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reissued as a companion edition to "Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine," this illustrated reference guide covers over 700 medicinal plants, of which more than 150 are readily obtainable in health food stores and other outlets. Based on the Appalachian herbal practice of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, each account of a plant includes the herbalist's comment, an assessment of the plant's efficacy, and current information on its chemical constituents and pharmacological effects. Unlike most herbal guides, this is a comprehensive, fully documented reference work that...
Reissued as a companion edition to "Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine," this illustrated reference guide covers over 7...
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Herbal and Magical Medicine: Traditional Healing Today
ISBN: 9780822312178 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Herbal and Magical Medicine" draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine.
The authors provide illuminating commentary on... "Herbal and Magical Medicine" draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical ...
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Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine
ISBN: 9780822320173 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Trying to Give Ease," John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott focus on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, a widely known and admired Appalachian herbalist. Informed by insights drawn from several disciplines, particularly anthropology, their broad historical analyses of self-care practices and herbal remedies draw heavily on recorded interviews with Bass and his patients. Special attention is given to local resources that shape alternative medicine, the backgrounds of herbal practitioners, and the cultural currency of medical concepts once central to...
In "Trying to Give Ease," John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott focus on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, a...
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