num_pages: 304
description: Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies -- including teas, tinctures, salves and ointments--for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman's life. A complete women's health-care manual, this book discusses:    common disorders and the herbs that are effective for treating them   how to select and store herbs   preparation of hundreds of herbal remedies   an alphabetical listing of herbs, including a brief description of the herb, the general medicinal usage, and when necessary, warnings about potential side effects.    It is this emphasis upon safe herbology that impressed me most about this book; for example, Gladstar very carefully distinguishes between the safe external applications of Pennyroyal herb and potentially lethal internal misuse of Pennyroyal oil.
language: English
title: Herbal Healing for Women
titlecomplete: Herbal Healing for Women
genres: Medicine, Reference, Nature, Plants, Health, Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Herbs, Gardening, Food
ratings_count: 1142
publisher: Atria Books