Herbs of the Earth: A Self-Teaching Guide to Healing Remedies
Another in the field of complementary health care devoted to herbal remedies, this book provides the general reader with an overview of botanical families, directions for herbal preparations, and descriptions of herbs and ailments. Designed as a self-teaching text and handbook, the guide, at times confusing to use, combines formats, with a dictionary arrangement and chapter lessons followed by review questions. Most of the information on herbs may be found elsewhere. Similar in scope to the first part of Neville and Susan Drury's The Illustrated Dictionary of Natural Therapy ( LJ 5/1/89), the guide's best feature is that it allows the reader to approach the study of herbalism from a botanical or medical viewpoint.- Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.