The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook A Home Manual,9780895949905

The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook A Home Manual

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780895949905
ISBN10: 0895949903
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Crossing Press
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Summary

This guide to the kitchen pharmacy discusses the entire process of preparing herbal medicines at home, from methods of growing, gathering, and drying herbs to different ways of extracting their vital essences and making healing balms, lotions, and more.

Author Biography

JAMES GREEN is the founder of Simplers Botanical Company and is a professional founding member of the American Herbalists Guild and United Plant Savers. He conducts workshops on male health and herbal medicine making throughout the United States and Canada. He lives in Ocean Beach, California.

Table of Contents

Prologue: A Word Before the Medicine Show 9(4)
A Field Trip
13(8)
A Few Herbs Are All You Need
21(20)
Gardening and Harvesting, Drying, Garbling, and Storing
41(24)
Kitchen Pharmacy Equipment
65(8)
The Extraction Process
73(6)
Solvents
79(20)
Forms of Herbal Medicine
99(4)
Infusion
103(8)
Decoction
111(6)
Distillation of Hydrosols
117(6)
Flower Essences
123(22)
Tincturing by Maceration
145(12)
Tincturing by Percolation
157(12)
Wine Infusion
169(8)
Vinegar Infusion
177(8)
Glycerin Infusion
185(8)
Oil Infusion
193(8)
Ointment, Salves, & Balms
201(8)
Lotions & Creams
209(10)
Suppositories and Boluses
219(10)
Herb Jellos
229(4)
Syrups, Honeys, Oxymels, and Electuaries
233(16)
Baths for Water Therapy
249(26)
Poultices and Fomentations
275(16)
Complementary Techniques, Terms, and Other Considerations
291(30)
A Perspective on Medicine
321(38)
Appendices
A---The United Plant Savers List of ``At-Risk Medicinal Plants''
338(3)
B---Welcome to the Garden
341(11)
C---Eight Principles of Excellent Medicine-Making
352(2)
D---Extract Information Chart
354(1)
E---Harvesting Information Chart
355(1)
F---First Aid for Poisoning by Alkaloids
356(3)
References 359(6)
Resources 365(6)
Index 371

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