This classic, award-winning book provides the first comprehensive description of Hawaiian traditions of plant use. Topics include not only food, but clothing, cordage, shelter, canoes, tools, housewares, medicines, religious objects, weaponry, personal adornment, and recreation.
Home/Herbal Remedies For Chicken Pox, Shingles, Scars, Dry Skin, Dark Spot, Acne And Other Skin Infections
by Akinola Olusegun
Vitamin D helps the body absorb and utilize calcium and is essential for the development of bones and teeth. It is in this capacity that vitamin D helps prevent two calcium-defieciency diseases: osteoprosis and rickets. Indirectly vitamin D promotes nerve function protects against muscle weakness fosters normal muscle contractions and helps and helps regulate the heartbeat. The vitamin also enhances immune-system function by prompting the thymus glad to create immune-system cells which in...
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
by Lakshmi Subbarao, Bruce Ferguson, and Saligrama C Subbarao
Turmeric: Great Recipes Featuring the Wonder Spice That Fights Inflammation and Protects Against Disease
by Colleen Sen and Helen Saberi
Harness the power of herbs to boost resilience, stamina, and brain function! Adaptogens are a unique class of herbs that greatly improve your body's reaction to emotional and physical stress while increasing your energy, stamina, endurance, and mental clarity. Recent studies support what practitioners of Indian Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine have known for centuries--these herbs including Rhodiola, ginseng, licorice, and more--and have positive benefits on wellness and are safe for...
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants
by Steve Brill and Evelyn Dean
Western Herbs for Martial Artists and Contact Athletes
by Susan Lynn Peterson
Laurie Pippen's All Natural Colorants for Cosmetic, Culinary, and Textile Dyeing
by Laurie Pippen
Novel Compounds from Natural Products in the New Millennium
by Benny K. H Tan, Boon Huat Bay, and Yi Zhun Zhu
Discusses the benefits of using garlic in the diet to prevent and treat heart disease.
You may think that herbal remedies are the same the world over, with just some local name-changing, but there is a radical difference between the Eastern and Western approaches to herbalism, which exists not so much in the plants themselves (many occur in both traditions) but in the approach to diagnosis. When prescribing, a Western herbalist will take the property of the herb into greater account than the constitution of the person who is taking it; an Eastern herbalist will first establish the...