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The New Healing Herbs: Revised and Updated

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I first checked the book out from the library for a health project, and now I'm intent on buying it! This book has so much information on 100 of the most popular herbs, including pictures of the plant, theraputic uses, safety concerns, cultivation, and etc. I strongly recommend this book for any beginner (or advanced) herb users.

Very nice book! I bought it not knowing anything about herbs, and now I'm filled with useful information! I love how Castleman lays out the book, nicely organizing each herb with general stats, history of the herb, therapeutic uses, new discoveries, Rx recommendations, safety factor, and so on. It's an easy, fun read that really gets you into herbal medicine. I'd definately recommend this book!

Great Book. It's easy to reference and gives the needed info I need. I'm not an expert on herbs and I don't have time to study them thoroughly so this book really helps me. I have kids and so another book that I thoroughly love is The ABC Herbal Book by Steven H. Horne, it's a great book on keeping your kids healthy (it's focus is a lot on extracts from herbs).

I am very interested in herbal medicine and this book covers a wide variety of herbs in an unbiased and easy to understand way. I have both "The Healing Herbs" & "The New Healing Herbs" and so far I haven't seen a huge difference in the subject matter that they cover, but I'm sure there are some updates. The herbs are all arranged alphabetically so that it's easy to look them up, and the index has different illnesses/symptoms listed so that you can search for "stomach pain" or some such thing and it will point you to the right pages for each herb(s) for treatment. I love that it gives the history, traditional uses, modern uses, information on promising research on each herb, the safety of using them, and administrations and doses. This book has been a wonderful addition to my alternative medicine library and I reference it almost daily. While I wouldn't give up any one of my multiple herbal references because they all have different perspectives on the information, if you're going to buy one book to learn the uses of different herbs this is probably the most complete and well rounded book that I have and the one that I would recommend. It's great for beginners and experienced herbalists alike.

Great book, except where are the 'o' herbs other than onions, oregano is missing, as is marjoram! How is this possible?

I use this book weekly to find herbal remedies and tinctures. Highly recommend to anyone interested in remedies, God's way.

I bought this book as a reference to the various types of herbs and the associated common uses. I guess that it may be an acceptable book for general information regarding the specific uses, but I wouldn't trust the information provided in the chapters. To categorize Egypt as part of Europe on the topic of herbal tradition or anything else for that matter, is a clear indication that several successful attempts were made in effort to denounce the sophisticated contributions that native Africans have made to world civilization and inflate Eurocentric historiography obtained through false means. I really wish I'd kept the receipt to take this back.

HE STILL NEEDS TO STUDY MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY ON WHAT THE OLDEST CULTURE OF HERBS ARE AND PLUS HE NEEDS TO STUDY MORE ON HOW OLD THE VEDAS ARE. ALL HE HAS KNOWLEDGE ON IS THE BIBLE AND HE SHOULD STICK TO THAT, WHAT HE KNOW BEST. BECAUSE THE BIBLE AND THE VEDAS ARE TWO DIFFERENT BOOKS.