The Big Book of Herbal Medicine: 300 Natural Remedies for Health and Wellness

I just received this book today. I've paged through it twice, and I'm already very impressed. It's all that I expected and hoped for, and more: many more types of treatments [modes of delivery] and many more ailments covered, than I anticipated. The recipes, and their preparations and precautions, are well written and easy to understand and follow. The glossary and different indexes are very comprehensive. And great color photos of all herbs, too! This is a welcome edition to my herbal medicine library. I highly recommend it.

Excellent color pics, information and quality paper in this book.

This is me just nitpicking!! I am currently in college working on an herbal medicine degree. This book is like a simplified version of our text books, which is great. For me, I would have loved to have seen a list of active constituents for each herb. However, I know that most people aren't wanting to dig that deep. I also wish that on each page of the herbs, for example ginger, that there was a spot that lists all the pages of recipes that include ginger. It's not necessary but would make things so easy to navigate and offer different ways to approach. Overall, this looks to be a great book and im glad I purchased!!

My review is based on looking through the book without trying any of the recipes. I love this book! Lots of information on a variety of herbs and recipes. I love that there is an index for both the herb and also by the ailments, this makes it super easy to look up things. There are some things I wish she had provided recipes for, example, a salve for headaches. She does provide recipes for headaches, like tea and a compress, but a headache salve would have been great as well. But I get that she can only cover so much and I can just find a recipe online for it. I’m looking forward to trying out some of these recipes and probably tweeking them as I go along to what works best for me.

Excellent information on herbs. Very clear descriptions. Excellent out of 5 herbal remedies books I have purchased this is the best for investigating remedies