100 Best Herbs Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

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Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide

Rosemary Gladstar

5.0

Widely recognized as the godmother of modern herbalism, Rosemary Gladstar is renowned worldwide for her inspired teaching and trustworthy knowledge of healing herbs. With Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide, Gladstar offers a fresh introduction for a new generation of gardeners and natural health and self-sufficiency enthusiasts.

Thirty-three of the most common and versatile healing plants are prof

2

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Llewellyn's Sourcebook Series)

Scott Cunningham

4.8

Do you work magic with herbs? Do you use them in spells, for talismans or simply use their innate powers? If you don't have Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, you need to get it right away. This book has become a classic in its field. Paul Beyerl, a respected author on herbs calls it "…an essential reference book by students of herbalism and magick alike … Scott's personable charm touches

3

Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health: 175 Teas, Tonics, Oils, Salves, Tinctures, and Other Natural Remedies for the Entire Family

Rosemary Gladstar

4.7

Promote vibrant health and radiant beauty, soothe everyday ailments, and ease persistent stress with these simple, natural cures for everything from dry skin and infant colic to cold symptoms and insomnia. Renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar provides 175 proven therapies and herbal remedies that are easy to prepare and safe enough for children. Offering a potent and effective alternative to comme

4

Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies That Heal

Rosalee De La Foret

4.7

Did you know there’s a powerful herbal medicine chest in your kitchen?

Imagine being prepared for that next cold, scrape, headache, digestive issue, stressful day, or sleepless night with simple ingredients from your cupboard. Instead of pills, reach for:

Cinnamon Tea to soothe your throat . . . Garlic Hummus to support your immune system . . . Ginger Lemon Tea for cold and flu symptoms . . . Cayenn

5

Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide

Thomas Easley and Steven Horne

4.5

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 pric

6

The Herb Book: The Most Complete Catalog of Herbs Ever Published

John Lust

4.5

"I have an old copy of this book that I've had for years and would never let go of, no matter how many times I moved and thinned out my books. This is a re-release and I'm really happy to see it back in print. Part two of the book is the real treasure. It is an alphabetical list of herbs that gives detailed information about their properties, including any cautions required." — Lora's Rants & Revi

7

The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual

James Green

4.5

THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER'¬?S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE MALE HERBAL. Writing in a delightfully personal and down-home style, Green emphasizes the point that herbal medicine-making is fundamental to every culture on the planet and is accessible to everyone. So, first head into

8

The Way of Herbs

Michael Tierra

4.4

Fully updated with the latest developments in herbal science, this practical and useful guide offers comprehensive descriptions of herbal treatments for cancer, arthritis, colds, and influenza. It shows how to gain and maintain health through a holistic approach, with information on simple herb remedies, and descriptions of more than 140 Western herbs and 31 Chinese herbs.

The Way of Herbs is an es

9

A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs

Steven Foster and James A. Duke

4.4

Of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))

The second edition of this volume shows how to identify more than 500 kinds of healing plants. More than 300 color photos illustrate the plants, their flowers, leaves, and fruits. The descriptive text includes information on where the plants are found as well as their known medicinal uses. An index to medical topics is helpful for qui

10

Herbal Healing for Women

Rosemary Gladstar

4.4

Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies -- including teas, tinctures, salves and ointments--for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman's life. A complete women's health-care manual, this book discusses: common disorders and the herbs that are effective for treating them how to select and store herbs preparation of hundreds

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Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

Andrew Chevallier

4.4

Helpful to enthusiasts and professionals alike, these volumes provide extensive coverage of hundreds of conditions and their remedies, including their sources and symptoms. Up-to-date research and in-depth explanations of today's most popular alternative therapies are enhanced by step-by-step photos of typical treatments, as well as symptoms charts and remedy ratings.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.3

Preview Summary

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celeb

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Healing Wise (Wise Woman Herbal Series)

Susun S. Weed

4.3

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Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Stephen Harrod Buhner

4.3

Current information about antibiotic resistant microbes and the herbs that are effective in fighting them.

15

The Complete Book of Herbs: A Practical Guide to Growing and Using Herbs

Lesley Bremness

4.3

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The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews

Scott Cunningham

4.3

One of the secrets of real magic is that it is controlled by the mind. The more things in your ritual to help your mind associate with your goal, the more powerful your ritual may be. Colored candles, scented oils, natural incenses, and more all add to the impact of the magic you wish to do. But how do you know which incense to burn? Is it possible to add scented oils together to get a more powerf

17

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs

Rodale Press, Claire Kowalchik, William H. Hylton, Anna Carr

4.3

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs is a virtually endless source of useful information and herbal know-how. Presented in A-to-Z format, supplemented with easy-to-use charts and lists, beautifully illustrated with drawings and color photographs, it is the only book on herbs you ever need to buy.

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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification

Thomas J. Elpel

4.3

Book by Thomas J. Elpel

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Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine

David Hoffmann

4.3

A foundational textbook on the scientific principles of therapeutic herbalism and their application in medicine

• A complete handbook for the medical practitioner

• Includes the most up-to-date information on preparations, dosage, and contraindications

• By the author of The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal

Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use

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Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging Resistant Viral Infections

Stephen Harrod Buhner

4.3

Current information about antibiotic resistant microbes and the herbs that are effective in fighting them.

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The Herbal Apothecary: 100 Medicinal Herbs and How to Use Them

JJ Pursell

4.2

“Perfect for anyone just beginning in herbal medicine.” —Mother Earth Living

Start your path to natural wellness with the safe, trusted advice found in The Herbal Apothecary. With the guidance of naturopath JJ Pursell, you will learn how to safely create your own remedies using plants you know and love. Incorporating traditional wisdom and scientific information, The Herbal Apothecary provides an

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The Complete Medicinal Herbal: A Practical Guide to the Healing Properties of Herbs, with More Than 250 Remedies for Common Ailments

Penelope Ody, Mark Blumenthal

4.2

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Back To Eden

Jethro Kloss

4.2

Now in its expanded, updated revised edition, this is the original classic text (with more than 5-million copies sold) that helped create the natural foods industry. It remains today one of the major texts on herbs, natural diet and lifestyle and holistic health.

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Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (Wise Woman Herbal Series, #1)

Susun S. Weed

4.2

Simple, safe remedies for pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and newborns.

Now in its 24th printing. A confirmed favorite with pregnant women, midwives, childbirth educators, and new parents. Packed with clear, comforting, and superbly helpful information.

Beginning with the two months before pregnancy, herbs are enlisted to provide safe, effective birth control, or to help ensure pregnancy, even in

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Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)

Sarah Addison Allen

4.2

The women of the Waverley family -- whether they like it or not -- are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina. There, an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with herbs and edible flowers that possess the power to affect in curious ways anyone who eats them.

For nearl

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The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

Valerie Ann Worwood

4.2

A necessary resource for anyone interested in alternative approaches to healing, this book contains more than 600 easy-to-follow recipes for essential oil treatments and aromatherapy.

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Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief

David Winston, Steven Maimes

4.2

The definitive guide to adaptogenic herbs, formerly known as “tonics,” that counter the effects of age and stress on the body

• Reveals how adaptogens increase the body’s resistance to adverse influences

• Provides a history of the use of these herbal remedies and the actions, properties, preparation, and dosage for each herb

We all deal with stress every day, and every day our bodies strive to ad

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The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants

Matthew Wood

4.2

Noted herbalist Matthew Wood brings twenty-five years of clinical experience to this comprehensive book on medicinal plants. The first in a two-volume set, The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants (volume two will treat American plants). Organized alphabetically, the book encompasses all of the major—and many of the secondary—herbs of traditional and modern Western herbalism. Author Wood des

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The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxation

Richard Mabey, Michael McIntyre, Pamela Michael, Gail Duff, John Stevens, Jane Reynolds, Nigel Hawtin

4.2

We have all grown increasingly aware of the potential -- and documented -- dangers of the chemical toxins that surround us. "The New Age Herbalist" is a compendium of healthy alternatives, an indispensable guide for contemporary natural living. Created by a team of experts, it offers:

A full-color illustrated glossary of more than 200 herbs, describing their properties, active ingredients, and tra

30

Making Plant Medicine

Richo Cech, Sena K. Cech, Anne Gunter

4.2

Making Plant Medicine is about making herbal medicine. This is a modern medicine making book and formulary with its roots in original herbalism designed for every medicinal herb gardener to cultivate the full potential of the plant-human relationship. Richo Cech tells very good stories based on his experience as a global wanderer, herbalist and medicine maker. In the context of his lifelong love o

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A Modern Herbal, Vol. I

Margaret Grieve

4.2

"There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regarded simply as a history of flowers, it adds to the joys of the country." — B. E. Todd, Spectator.
If you want to know how pleurisy root, lungwort, and abscess root got their names, how poison ivy used to treat rheumatism, or how garlic guarded against th

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The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal: Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies

David Hoffmann

4.2

Herbal medicine is enjoying a much deserved revival with more and more people turning to its safe, natural remedies which are free from harmful side-effects. The most comprehensive and authoritative guide available, this herbal offers clear, step-by-step advice on the use of herbal medicine for the safe treatment of a wide range of complaints. Its unique holistic approach enables you to restore an

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The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life

Robin Rose Bennett

4.2

Herbalists, naturopaths, plantspeople, witches, and natural healers will love the empowering information, engaging stories, and heartfelt meditations and rituals of natural herbal medicines. Written by well-respected urban herbalist Robin Rose Bennett with over 180 easy-to-follow recipes, this book offers readers who want to take charge of their health an immersion into a myriad ways to use plant-

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Herbal Medicine Natural Remedies: 150 Herbal Remedies to Heal Common Ailments

Anne Kennedy

4.2

Everyday ailments. Herbal remedies. Your complete resource to start feeling better, naturally.

When a headache, cough, or other common ailment hits, many people turn to over-the-counter medications for relief. But for those who prefer to use herbal medicine, it can be difficult and overwhelming to find an authoritative resource that's also easy to understand.

Join natural health author Anne Kennedy

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Amy Stewart and Briony Morrow-Cribbs

4.2

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The Healing Herbs: The Ultimate Guide to the Curative Power of Nature's Medicines

Michael Castleman

4.2

The Healing Herbs provides the information you need to use the earth's wonderful bounty of medicinal plants confidently, effectively, and above all, safely. It examines 100 of the most widely used, most easily available, most familiar, and most fascinating medicinal plants, tracing their history, folklore, and healing properties, and summarizing the latest scientific research on their many benefit

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Alkaline Herbal Medicine: Reverse Disease and Heal the Electric Body

Aqiyl Aniys

4.2

Alkaline Herbal Medicine gives insight into many of the herbs used to reverse disease in Dr. Sebi's African Bio Mineral Balance. It covers scientifically supported properties, preparation, doses and dosages, and how to combine herbs. It addresses alkaline foods on the Dr. Sebi nutritional guide, and their chemical affinity with and support of the electric body. The natural order in life designed t, whose base DNA makeup is the African genome. Diets centered on the consumption of natural alkaline plant foods and ample exposure to the sun supported the healthy expression of the African genome. The environment of Africa, and environments similar to Africa, produced life that developed with a complete and balanced electrical structure. The plant life that grew in these environments grew under optimal conditions in nutrient rich soil under year long exposure to the sun. The resulting chemical makeup of these natural alkaline plants protected them from environmental stresses. Africans originally ate diets centered on the consumption of these plants, like the great apes of Africa, and the programming of the African genome used the protective nature of these plants' nutrients to support its vibrancy. A scientific model supports the idea that Africans migrated out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago into the less hospitable environments of Europe and Asia. These environments didn't support the healthy expression of the African genome and resulted in the mutation of the gene and the development of the Neanderthal of Europe and Denisovan of East Asia. Science has linked diseases like lupus, Crohn's disease, and type 2 diabetes to the Neanderthal gene. The Neanderthals, who inhabited the Neandertal caves in Germany, ate a diet centered on the consumption of meat. The combination of their meat-centered diet and adverse relationship with the sun led to the development of dis-ease in the body. Now, the meat-centered diet is being globalized and is spreading disease throughout the world. An alkaline plant-centered diet and the use of alkaline herbal medicine naturally support the healthy expression of the African genome in all people, and reverses chronic disease. Pharmaceutical medicine is built on the power of medicinal herbs because around fifty percent of its drugs are derived from herbs. The issue is industry has strategically conditioned people to forget about the healing power of natural alkaline herbs. I dedicate this book in the memory of Alfredo Bowman lovingly known as Dr. Sebi. He helped us to remember that natural alkaline herbs and plant foods support the healthy expression of the African genome that is in all people. He did this by sharing his African Bio Mineral Balance methodology. Categories: herbal remedies, naturopathy, healing, herbs, herbal medicine

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A Modern Herbal

M Grieve

4.2

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Prescription for Nutritional Healing

Phyllis A. Balch CNC

4.2

Prescription for Nutritional Healing is the nation's #1 bestselling guide to natural remedies. The new fifth edition incorporates the most recent information on a variety of alternative healing and preventive therapies and unveils new science on vitamins, supplements, and herbs.

With an A-to-Z reference to illnesses, updates include:

How omega-3 and exercise may help those suffering from Alzheimer's

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The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism: Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification

Matthew Wood

4.2

The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism places the function of western herbs in their true historical context, apart from homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda. Recently there has been a revival of interest in western herbalism, but practitioners haven't been able to explore its benefits due to a void of information on the topic—the system of medicine the herbs fit into had

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Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

Dale Pendell, Gary Snyder

4.2

In Pharmako/Poeia, Dale Pendell offers a mesmerizing guide to psychoactive plants, from their pharmacological roots to the literary offshoots. "This is a book," writes Gary Snyder, "about danger: dangerous knowledge, even more dangerous ignorance." Against the greater danger, ignorance, Pendell strikes a formidable blow, as he proves himself a wise and witty guide to our plant teachers, their powe

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Herbs

Lesley Bremness

4.2

Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy and accurate.

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The Illustrated Herbiary: Guidance and Rituals from 36 Bewitching Botanicals

Maia Toll

4.2

2018 INDIES Winner Gold — Body, Mind, Spirit (Adult Nonfiction)
Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner

Rosemary is for remembrance; sage is for wisdom. Would meditating on the starflower help heal you? Does the spirit of sweet violet have something to offer you today? Contemporary herbalist Maia Toll, author of The Illustrated Bestiary and The Illustrated Crystallary, profiles the mystical, magical, bew

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Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants

Eliot Cowan

4.2

Ancient shamanic practice compelled the magician-healer to first make contact with the spirit of the plant to ask for its help before administering the herbal cure. This practice is still alive today in Mexico, among the traditional Indian shaman healers -- principally the elder Huichol Indian shaman and plant spirit healer, Don Guadalupe Gonzales Rios. Elliot Cowan reveals these ancient practices

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A Kid's Herb Book: For Children of All Ages

Lesley Tierra

4.1

Kids! Explore the mysterious world of herbs with this magical, herbal workbook: Make your own healing potions, secret remedies, magical salves, enchanted syrups and special healing remedies. Recipes, projects, delightful stories, chant herbal songs, color in pictures, activities, grow your own garden, create healing herbal preparations!A Kid

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Magical Herbalism: The Secret Craft of the Wise

Scott Cunningham

4.1

Natural magic utilizes the world around us for magical purposes. Herbs are one of the most important tools for natural magic, and the best introduction to this system is found in Scott Cunningham's Magical Herbalism.

This book presents a complete system of magic using herbs. You will learn the theory of magic and the tools you'll need. Then you'll get countless techniques for using herbs for magic

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Garden Witch's Herbal: Green Magick, Herbalism & Spirituality

Ellen Dugan

4.1

Every Witch needs a little corner of the world to tend. Deepen your connection to the earth and watch your magickal skills blossom. Ellen Dugan presents a variety of ways to honor and work with the plant kingdom in this charming hands-on guide to green magick and spirituality. Designed to enhance any tradition or style of the Craft, this handy herbal reference provides the physical description, fo

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Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism

Stephen Harrod Buhner, Brooke Medicine Eagle

4.1

The first in-depth examination of the sacred underpinnings of the world of Native American medicinal herbalism.

❧ Reveals how shamans and healers talk with plants to discover their medicinal properties

❧ Includes the prayers and medicine songs associated with each of the plants examined

❧ By the author of The Secret Teachings of Plants

As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imagina

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Herbs for Natural Beauty

Rosemary Gladstar

4.1

One of America's foremost herbalists provides concise, simple-to-understand, and practical information for using herbs for health and well-being. Each book contains profiles of specific herbs, cautions, contraindications, and easy-to-make recipes to relieve common ailments.

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The Green Pharmacy

James A. Duke, Ph.D. Jamea A. Duke, Peggy Kessler Duke

4.1

Thousands of safe, natural remedies lie untapped in jungles, forests and herbal gardens throughout the world. Now, in Green Pharmacy by James A. Duke (with illustrations by Peggy Kessler Duke), America's foremost authority on medicinal plants and herbs shares his knowledge of these hidden reserves of healing power.

* For Arthritis: A new, all-natural remedy that can cut pain in half.
* For Back Pain

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The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature

Stephen Harrod Buhner

4.1

Reveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing of human disease

• Explores the techniques used by indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly from the plants themselves, including those of Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution

• Contains leading-edge information on the heart as an organ of perceptio

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Evolutionary Herbalism: Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature

Sajah Popham and Matthew Wood

4.1

Weaving together herbal and medical traditions from around the world into a singular cohesive model, this groudbreaking book guides herbal practitioners to a comprehensive understanding of the practice and philosophy of healing with herbs.

Written by one of the most exciting up-and-coming teachers in the field, this book presents a wide-angled and innovative approach to herbalism that truly conside

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The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines

Matthew Wood

4.1

Matthew Wood is recognized world wide as one of the United States' most reknown herbalists. His previous book, Seven Herbs: Plants as Healers, was a watershed in teaching herbal healing as a part of total wellness. In The Book of Herbal Wisdom, this is continued and enlarged in wonderful detail. This is a must-read for anyone working in the natural health field or interested in self healing with h

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Herbal Medicine for Beginners: Your Guide to Healing Common Ailments with 35 Medicinal Herbs

Katja Swift and Ryn Midura

4.1

HERBAL MEDICINE FOR BEGINNERS IS YOUR EVERYDAY REFERENCE FOR COMMON AILMENTS USING 35 POPULAR HERBS.

You don't need to buy hundreds of hard-to-find herbs to start your journey with herbal medicine. "Herbal Medicine for Beginners" shows you how to use a few important herbs to promote the body's ability to fight infection and heal naturally. "Herbal Medicine for Beginners" shows herbalists-in-trainin

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Wild Remedies: Plant Medicines That Heal You, Your Family, and the World

Rosalee de la Forêt and Emily Han

4.1

That's not a weed--it's a healing meal! Learn how to use wild plants for food and medicine in this illustrated guide from two expert herbalists.

Millions of people are interested in natural or alternative health--but many of them are missing out on the most important ingredient: Nature itself!

Wild Remedies inspires readers to rekindle their connection with nature by identifying, tending, and harves

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A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year

Ellen Evert Hopman

4.1

EARTH RELIGIONS / HERBAL MEDICINES

For the ancient Druids, the healing and magical properties of herbs were inseparable from the larger cycles of the seasons, the movements of the planets, and the progression of a human life.

A Druid’s Herbal shows the reader how to use herbs when creating rituals to celebrate festivals and significant life passages such as births, house blessings, weddings, funer

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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

Amy Stewart

4.1

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when a Dutch physician added oil of juniper to a clear spirit, believing that juniper berries would cure kidney disorders. "The Drunken Botanist" uncovers the enlightening botanical history and the fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees

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Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease

Bharat B. Aggarwal PhD, Debora Yost

4.1

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The Complete Illustrated Book of Herbs

Reader's Digest

4.1

This beautifully illustrated, complete guide to herbs unlocks the secrets of these wonder plants-from planting and harvesting to cooking and storing- including their health benefits. Now you can discover the joy and pleasure of growing your own herbs-for spicing up meals, creating crafts, treating ailments, and more. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated herbal guide you'll find inform

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National Geographic Guide to Medicinal Herbs

Tieraona Low Dog M.D., Rebecca L. Johnson, Steven Foster, David Kiefer M.D., Andrew Weil M.D.

4.1

"Because I have long worked to make accurate information on botanical remedies available to consumers as well as to doctors, pharmacists, and allied health professionals, I am delighted to see the appearance of the National Geographic Guide to Medicinal Herbs. This excellent guide is the work of a team of highly qualified botanical and medical experts, including two of my colleagues from the Arizo

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Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More

Miranda Smith

4.1

Your Backyard Herb Garden by Miranda Smith will teach you everything you need to know about growing your favorite herbs using safe, natural, all-organic methods!

Practical tips and advice on all aspects of successful herb growing.

A wealth of great ideas and helpful how-to on using herbs in cooking, crafts, cosmetics, health care, insect repellents, and more.

Illustrated herb directory featuring all

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Culpeper's Complete Herbal

N. Culpeper

4.1

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African Holistic Health

Llaila Afrika

4.1

african holistic health addresses health issues from a comprehensive african -centered viewpoint.it provides a complete guide to herbal remedies along with homeopathic disease treatments.what makes afrikan holistic health truly unique is the research dr. afrika has provided on the physiological and psychological differences between people of african descent verses people of european descent.

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The Master Book of Herbalism

Paul Beyerl

4.1

Outstanding in its completeness, The Master Book of Herbalism fulfills a need that has long been felt by students of the magickal arts. In his sincere and gentle manner, Paul brings over 15 years experience as he writes about: the medicinal use of herbs, including illustrations of plants easily found in the wild; history and religious lore with specific background information on individual herbs;

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The Herbalist's Way: The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines

Nancy Phillips, Michael Phillips, Rosemary Gladstar

4.1

This updated edition of The Village Herbalist provides a complete guide to the art and practice of herbalism, as well as an introduction to the herbalist's role in family and community life. Inspirational profiles of practicing herbalists from across the country add a human touch to the authors' wealth of practical herbal knowledge.

The Herbalist's Way includes time-honored healing wisdom from many

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The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine

David Frawley

4.1

Guide to the use of herbs from Ayurvedic perspective. How to balance your constitution and practice self-healing.

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The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More

Arin Murphy-Hiscock

4.1

Discover the power of natural magic and healing through herbs, flowers, and essential oils in this new guide to green witchcraft.

At her core, the green witch is a naturalist, an herbalist, a wise woman, and a healer. She embraces the power of nature; she draws energy from the Earth and the Universe; she relies on natural objects like stones and gems to commune with the land she lives off of; she u

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Encyclopedia of Essential Oils: The complete guide to the use of aromatic oils in aromatherapy, herbalism, health and well-being

Julia Lawless

4.1

This is one of the bestselling aromatherapy books of all time with vital information on plant origins, medical herbalism and the properties and actions of herbs and essential oils. It covers 165 oils, their actions, characteristics, principal constituents and folk traditions and is a must for experienced aromatherapists and beginners alike.

This essential handbook is used by aromatherapists all ove

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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers

Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Rätsch

4.1

World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.

• Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.

• Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world.

• Cross-referenced by plant, illness,

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Body into Balance: Achieving Your Optimal Health with Herbs

Maria Noel Groves

4.1

Fatigue, allergies, anxiety, indigestion, eczema, high blood pressure, and other conditions are not just isolated problems to be solved -- they are indicators that your body is out of balance. Taking a pill may erase a symptom temporarily, but addressing the root of the problem and bringing your body back to its natural state of balance is a more effective approach. Herbalist and teacher Maria Noe

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Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

Thomas Bartram

4.1

Containing over 900 entries of general disease conditions and corresponding herbal treatments, this book covers therapeutic action, 550 monographs of medicinal plants, and the properties of herbs and preparations such as tinctures, liquid extracts, poultices and essential oils.

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Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West

Michael Moore

4.0

In the first update since the original printing in 1979, renowned herbalist Michael Moore adds another twenty years of research and expertise working with medicinal plants to his classic Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West. In this greatly expanded revised and enlarged edition, the book covers the entire range of medicinal herbs found in New Mexico, Arizona, west Texas, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, a

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A Modern Herbal, Vol. II

Margaret Grieve

4.0

"There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regarded simply as a history of flowers, it adds to the joys of the country." — B. E. Todd, Spectator
If you want to know how pleurisy root, lungwort, and abscess root got their names, how poison ivy used to treat rheumatism, or how garlic guarded against the

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Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica

Dan Bensky, Steven Clavey, Erich Stoger, Andrew Gamble, Lilian Lai Bensky

4.0

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Herbal Home Health Care

John R. Christopher

4.0

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The Way of Chinese Herbs

Michael Tierra

4.0

Chinese herbs have soared in popularity. Now an expert brings the most powerful holistic remedies from the ancient world to ours.

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The Healing Power of Essential Oils: Soothe Inflammation, Boost Mood, Prevent Autoimmunity, and Feel Great in Every Way

Eric Zielinski DC

4.0

Eric Zielinski, D.C., host of the Essential Oils Revolution summits, offers a soup-to-nuts guide to mastering essential oils for vibrant health and well-being, featuring dozens of recipes and formulations for restful sleep, reduced inflammation, balanced hormones, and more.

Achieving true health is not an easy task. For many people, it might be easier to pop a pill or push aside lingering discomf

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The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications

Christian Ratsch, Albert Hofmann (Foreward)

4.0

The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants

• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances

• Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality

• Contains 797 color photographs and 645 black-and-white illustrations

In the traditions of ever

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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Paul Stamets

4.0

Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.

The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essenti

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New Menopausal Years: Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90

Susun S. Weed

4.0

The best book on menopause is now better. Herbal solutions for osteoporosis, hot flashes, mood swings, fatigue, flooding, fibroids, low libido, incontinence, anxiety, depression.

Completely revised with 100 new pages. All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds of new ones. New sections on thyroid health, fibromyalgia, hairy problems, male menopause, and herbs for women taking hormones.

Reco

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Chef's Guide to Herbs Spices: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

Chef Jay Weinstein

4.0

Essential 6 page laminated kitchen-proof guide for both the professional chef and homegrown culinary enthusiast. Chef Jay Weinstein, CIA-trained veteran of America’s finest kitchens, including New York’s Le Bernardin and Boston’s Jasper enumerates the relevant leaves, seeds, barks, buds, resins, and other plant-based seasonings of modern world cuisines sharing techniques such as infusions, herb-oi

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The Herbal Handbook: A User's Guide to Medical Herbalism

David Hoffmann

4.0

Well-respected herbalist David Hoffmann's comprehensive and practical guide to herbal medicine.

• Discusses the history and modern practice of herbalism, including Chinese, Native American, and Welsh influences.

• Includes a practical reference section listing the effects of various herbs, with prescriptions on how to use them for a wide range of illnesses.

• Covers the fundamentals of growing, dr

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Herbalism at Home: 125 Recipes for Everyday Health

Kristine Brown

4.0

Natural remedies made easy--an at-home guide to herbalism

A growing number of people have turned to herbalism as an affordable, natural alternative to conventional medicine--and with a rich landscape of resources, those new to herbalism may wonder where to start. Herbalism at Home gives you the down-to-earth guidance and simple recipes you need to introduce plant-based remedies into your daily life

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The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

Samuel Thayer

4.0

A guide to 32 of the best and most common edible wild plants in North America, with detailed information on how to identify them, where they are found, how and when they are harvested, which parts are used, how they are prepared, as well as their culinary use, ecology, conservation, and cultural history.

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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

Jean M. Auel, Sandra Burr, et al

4.0

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.

A natural disaster leaves the yo

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The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs

Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg

4.0

Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship

Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating "deliciousness"

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Edibles: Small Bites for the Modern Cannabis Kitchen (Weed-Infused Treats, Cannabis Cookbook, Sweet and Savory Cannabis Recipes)

Stephanie Hua

4.0

Bring a new herb into your kitchen with this tasty unique collection of recipes for bite-sized, low-dose sweet and savory cannabis edibles. This cookbook ventures boldly beyond pot brownies with delicious and unique baked confections as well as innovative savory treats. Designed for bakers and cooks of all skill levels, Edibles: Small Bites for the Modern Cannabis Kitchen includes simple recipes l

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Magical Aromatherapy: The Power of Scent

Scott Cunningham, Robert Tisserand

4.0

Scott Cunningham shows the effects that essential oils and extracts have on our inner selves. The current knowledge of the physiological and psychological effects of natural fragrances are combined with the ancient art of magical perfumery. Learn how to use these tools to enhance psychic perception, help finances, attract love, and more.

Over 200,000 copies sold.

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Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook

Robin Rose Bennett

4.0

Follow the path to physical and spiritual health with this how-to manual filled with ancient lore and wisdom. Using stories, songs, rituals, recipes, meditations, and trance journeys, it suggests more than 100 ways to practice the art of magical healing. Find out how to reconnect with the earth and draw on its energy, interact with the power of the seven chakras, make use of moon magic and women’s

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Chinese Herbal Medicine for Beginners: Over 100 Remedies for Wellness and Balance

Carrie Chauhan

4.0

The beginner’s guide to healing and harmonizing with Chinese herbal medicine

Chinese herbal medicine is a system of assessing and diagnosing the underlying causes of illnesses that has been refined over thousands of years. Taking a holistic approach, Chinese herbal medicine focuses on the whole person and emphasizes preventing illnesses by maintaining a physical, mental, and spiritual balance. Chin

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The Cannabis Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to Cultivation & Consumption of Medical Marijuana

Jorge Cervantes, Foreword by Vicente Fox Quesada, et al.

4.0

A definitive guide to medical marijuana cultivation and consumption & explains all the essential techniques to grow cannabis. 2,000+ beautiful color images illustrate this book. Medical cannabis history, cannabinoid measurement & medical varieties provide a background for medical patients & caregivers. The Medicinal Concentrates & Cooking with Medicinal Cannabis chapters feature different methods

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Herb Magic for Beginners: Down-To-Earth Enchantments

Ellen Dugan

4.0

Stir up passion with violet or nab a new job with honeysuckle. From parsley to periwinkle, people enjoy herbs for their aroma, taste, and healing abilities, but few are aware of the enchanting powers harnessed within these multipurpose plants. Breathing new life into herbal folklore and wisdom, Ellen Dugan introduces the magical side of these natural treasures.

The author of Cottage Witchery descri

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Bud, Blossom, & Leaf: The Magical Herb Gardener's Handbook

Dorothy Morrison

4.0

Everything you need to know about herbs, both the mundane and the magical, is here From using hydroponic magic to brewing herb wine fit for the gods, you'll find over 125 spells invocations, rituals, and recipes for your magical gardening practices. This gardening grimoire also includes easy techniques for making beauty treatments, culinary delights, pest control solutions, and housecleaning suppl

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Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing

Michele E. Lee

4.0

African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native American, European and other healing traditions to become a full-fledged body of medicinal practices that has lasted in various forms down to the present day.

Wor

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Herbs & Spices: The Cook's Reference

Jill Norman

4.0

The first illustrated guide to cover the whole spectrum of herbs and spices for culinary use. Herbs & Spices is an indispensable reference that shows how to prepare fresh and dried herbs, how to use herbs and spices in cooking, and details everything that other books on the subject leave out. Containing a unique collection of recipes, from herb and spice mixes to rubs, pastes, salsas, and marinade

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Earthwise Herbal Repertory: The Definitive Practitioner's Guide

Matthew Wood

4.0

Internationally known herbalist Matthew Wood takes the guesswork out of the application of medicinal plants and provides an invaluable cross-reference of constitutional types, energetic categories, and specific symptoms that helps the herbalist narrow down the number of possible remedies for a specific condition. Unlike many reference books in which medicinal plants are defined simply by condition

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Santo Remedio. Edici�n Ilustrada

Doctor Juan Rivera

4.0

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Green Witchcraft

Ann Moura

4.0

Learn the basics of Witchcraft from a third-generation Witch raised in a family tradition. Positive, practical, and easy to use, Green Witchcraft brings together the best of both modern Wicca and the author's family heritage of herb craft and folk magic.

Green Witchcraft explores the fundamentals of the Wiccan religion, providing magical training for the independent thinker. Step-by-step instructio

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Home Herbal: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking, Brewing, and Blending Your Own Herbs

DK

4.0

Tap into the healing power of plants with Home Herbal . The modern answer to the traditional herbal, this beautifully illustrated book shows you how easy it is to grow and use a wide range of safe, effective medicinal herbs at home. Discover how to treat everyday ailments with home-made tinctures, and syrups, and how to use food as medicine with delicious, seasonal herb-based soups, smoothies and

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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture

Toby Hemenway, John Todd

4.0

Permaculture is a verbal marriage of "permanent" and "agriculture." Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:

- use of compatible perennials;
- non-invasive planting techniques;
- emphasis on biodiversity;
- specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions;
- highly productive output of edibles.

Now, picture your backyard as one incredibly lush gard