Clinical Applications of Herbal Medicine

From a relatively mainstream medical perspective, this useful little book covers a series of ailments and suggests herbal treatments for them.

The Illustrated Herbal Handbook for Everyone

Useful although not really as comprehensive as the title suggests. Illustrations are line drawings.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing

A practical A to Z reference to drug-free remedies using vitamins, minerals, herbs & food supplements.

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

Many European countries are far ahead of North America when it comes to alternative methods of healing. This comprehensive guide to diseases and treatments needs some herbal background in order to use it effectively, but it's very thorough.

Herbal Antibiotics

A vital and desperately needed book. Right now an increasing number of bacteria - including Yersinia pestis, the germ that causes the Black Death - are becoming immune to antibiotics. Modern medical science has nothing in reserve...but herbal medicine does. Buhner covers a wide range of herbs that can be used to strengthen the immune system and wipe out hostile bacteria, and gives all the information you need to use them.

Herbs for Hepatitis C and the Liver

You haven't heard about Hepatitis C yet? You will. Highly infectious and (so far) incurable, it currently infects more than 500 million people worldwide. It causes cirrhosis and liver cancer, and medical authorities are suggesting that it will kill more people than AIDS in the fairly near future. It can be treated with herbs, and this book tells you how.

Making Plant Medicine

Richo Cech and his family operate Horizon Herbs, among the best sources of organically grown herb seeds and live plants you'll find anywhere. This handbook of herbal medicine making is full of detailed information on preparations, dosages, and uses.

In Praise of Wild Herbs

Herbal secrets from a legendary French practitioner. Includes treatments for a wide range of health problems.

Using Plants for Healing

Long before the current renaissance of herbal healing, Nelson Coon was out there gathering and using herbs. Many of the herbs covered in this book are native to the eastern half of North America.

Herbal Remedies for Women

Women have health care needs of their own,and many of them can be taken care of naturally with herbs. A good book on how to do it.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged

There's something to say for a medicinal herbal that's been available constantly since the seventeenth century. Should be used with care, and a few other good herbals.

Herbs: Partners In Life

A good general herbal with useful information on most phases of herbal practice.

The Herbal Medicine Chest

This little book from Down Under has a surprising amount of useful knowledge on the practical application of herbal medicine. Focuses on a few specific preparations - salves, oils, teas, and tinctures - which is not a bad approach.

The Complete Earth Medicine Handbook, Revised Edition

Detailed profiles of 33 very common herbs, most of them weeds you've got in your back yard right now. Detailed, and stocked with recipes.