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Medicinal Herbal Therapy: A Pharmacist's Viewpoint

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Steven Ottariano's Medicinal Herbal Therapy breaks new ground in terms of clarity, insight and the accessible delivery of information about the healing benefits of natural herbs. Written by a practicing clinical pharmacist, Medicinal Herbal Therapy provides an easy-to-read perspective on how and when natural medications can augment or sometimes replace modern synthetic preparations that are often prescribed by physicians either out of habit or as a result of a lack of knowledge. Anyone searching for information about herbal cures will find the information they desire--and more--in Medicinal Herbal Therapy.

The book's organization makes it easy to use. Part One, "What Ails You?" is alphabetically arranged to help you locate herbs by the symptoms they cure. Part Two, "The Healing Herbs" alphabetically lists herbs and the ailments they cure.

Clear and concise treatments and monographs for medicinal herbs. An invaluable reference for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care practitioners entering this exciting field of complementary therapies.

Very valuable information, succinctly presented. Also very useful for physicians, who might want to know a little more about Phytotherapy.

This book was somewhat of a disappointment to me because it left out too many common herbs. Also, it did not give the reactions with medicines, which would have been expected, being written by a pharmacist. I have read better herbal books by pharmacists. Patti B.

This book is a good, easy to understand reference with practical everyday applications.

I had the pleasure of being in a pharmacology class for nursing and Steve was our instructor........ WOW! This guy KNOWS HIS STUFF!!! I never realized how natural and herbal medicines worked but thanks to having his class and buying this book, it woke me up to the alternatives available to treat illnesses or afflictions. Can't wait for the NEXT book!!!

I found that although this book has good intentions it was not helpful for someone looking for more then just a list of disease states and various herbals used to treat them. Each disease state lists the herbals sometimes used but did not give any information on why one might be better or worse then the others. It was concise as others have pointed out. I would recommend the APhA book on herbs over this one.

The direction I needed to take in this new frontier