Herbal Medicine: Revised & Updated

I opened this book to begin browsing through it, and it starts on page 185. Not sure what I missed, hopefully it wasn't important.

wet the skin around the paper cut and sprinkle powdered clove on your paper cut.

Dr. Buchman explains individual herbs and what they can do for you; herbs for miladies such as rashes, sore gums and even flatulence. But the best part is on page 219, where he explains everything about making preparations, from harvesting herbs to storing the finished preparation. This may not be the ONLY book on herbs that you will ever need, but it is the FIRST book on herbs that you should have.

This was one of the first herb books I purchased some 20 years ago; and by far one of the most used. The book gives excellent information on herbal care, easy to read and well documented. Sections on tincture and salve making are very well written, again easy to understand, and drawing explicit with instructions easy to understand. I have used this book in teaching herbal health classes; and excellent choice.

If you don't know anything about herbs, and or using them in everyday situations, you have to buy this book. I have not purchased the revised edition but I do have the original, and its wonderful. If you are a begginer its a great book to have just for the recipes and formulas. The recipes are very simple, and have common ingredients you can find around the house in your spice and herb cabinet and or can get at a local grocery store or in your back yard. If you are a begginer buy this book, its fun, its informative and you can make things without searching high and low for the ingredients. If you are an intermediate to advance herb user its still worth purchasing, for the same reasons that the begginer would use it for. Its just a great general for in home herb book.