The Power Herbs: 13 Herbs Every Medicine Cabinet Should Have

by Jane Wendy Wilson, Wendy Wilson Cheslak

"The Power Herbs" is an easy to read guide to natural healing. This 395-page volume is written by an herbalist with practical,hands-on experience. "It's like having your own personal herbalist lead you through a master plan toward optimum health." The author doesn't waste time with an herbal history and gets down to business with the things you must know such 1. What your herbs should taste like so you won't "get taken" 2. What herbs to avoid if pregnant, nursing or suffering from a particular illness. 3. How to see through the marketing hype and take home quality supplements and more. In addition, readers will learn how they 1. Avoid illness and disease by protecting the body's most important organ. 2. Find out what supplement manufacturers don't want them to know about. 3. Discover an almost forgotten therapy that can pound almost any illness into extinction. For the sceintific mind, "The Power Herbs" also mentions documented research and current scientific studies to support the validity of medicinal herbs and natural therapies. But that's not all this edition offers. Learn how 1. Lose weight without dieting 2. Balance blood pressure 3. Improve sexual performance 4. Lower cholesterol 5. Calculate doses by weight with an easy formula for optimum results 6. Get children to take any herb Also included are these valuable 1. A 100-page symptom/herb reference guide 2. Drug/herb interaction alerts 3. Resource list of companies they can trust 4. Reference sources for further study 5. Index 6. Glossary

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Published November 1, 2000