Customer Reviews

Neem: India's Miraculous Healing Plant

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This little book, has in one place, all the essential info about NEEM and its many uses (health wise, insecticide etc). I have been reading up on Neem for years but still did not garner as much info as this book ! You won't be disappointed.

You will want to read this book about Neem, especially if you live in the US, where Neem in not well-known. The author has done an excellent job of introducing Neem to anyone who is totally unfamiliar with it, and doing it in an easy-to-read fashion.

We have used Neem, and benefited greatly from it, since reading this well-written book on Neem.

I'm not a vet, nor a neem expert, but the author's neem seed and tea tree oil shampoo recipe for pets p64 seems an irresponsible concoction for two reasons (1) from what I've read, you should be very careful adding tea tree oil to any treatment of a pet. Even the ASPCA, under the "Ask the Expert Poison Control" (search for "tea tree oil") confirms the potential harmful effects. And you can be certain that the exposure to cats wouldn't just be dermal, they'd lick much of it too. If the author knows this risk, it certainly isn't apparent with any warnings (2) my understanding is that neem leaf is ok to ingest, but not neem seed. Again, this would go straight to a cats digestion after licking itself. A responsible way to write a chapter on pet care would include those nuggets of info. Again, I'm no expert, but the available neem and tea tree information for pets seems to be worth the author's effort to precaution pet owners. Doesn't build my confidence in the rest of the book and concerns me for the pet owners who might follow that advice.