ask the herbalists

books on herbal medicine for the beginner:

• Family Herbal by Rosemary Gladstar

• The Book of Herbal Wisdom by Matthew Wood

• The Essential Book of Herbal Medicine by Simon Mills

 

great cookbooks:

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• Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon from Westin A. Price

• Vegetables by James Peterson

• The Natural Healing Cookbook by Bricklin

 

free books online:

• Blair, Thomas - A Practitioners Handbook of Materia Medica & Therapeutics

• Colby, Benjamin - A Guide to Health

• Cook, WM - A Compend of the New Materia Medica

• Cook, WM - A Physio-Medical Dispensatory

• Culbreth, David - A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology

• Davidson, John - The Cascara Tree in BC

• Deschauer, Thomas - Illustrated Phytotherapy Book 1

• Deschauer, Thomas- Illustrated Phytotherapy Book 2

• Felter & Lloyd - Syllabus of Electic Materia Medica & Therapeutics

• Felter, Harvey - A Treatise on Thuja Occidentalis

• Felter, Harvey - American Medicinal Plants

• Fyfe, John - The Essentials of Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics

• Hatfield, John - The Botanic Pharmacopoeia

• Lloyd, John - Collidum Crataegus

• Lloyd, John - Concerning the American Materia Medica

• Lloyd - Elixir & Flavoring Extracts Formulae

• Lloyd - Favorite Remedies Used in Treatment of Influenza

• Lloyd - History of the Vegetable Drugs of the USP

• Lloyd - New Remedies

• Lloyd - Pulsatilla

• Lloyd - Quantity versus Quality

• Lloyd - The Eclectic Alkaloids

• Lloyd - Valuable Remedies for Influenza

• Locke - Uses of Some Standard Remedies by Eclectic Physicians

• Lyle - Physio-Medical Therapeutics Materia & Pharmacy

• Mausert - Mauseret’s Formulae

• Mundy - A Treatise on Collinsonia Canadensis

• Niederkorn - Echinacea

• Peterson - Materia Medica & Clinical Therapeutics

• Sayre - A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharacognosy

• Shaller - A Therapeutic Guide to Alkaloidal Dosimetric Medication

• Smith - The Medicinal Plants of North America

• Steinmetz - Materia Medica Vegetabilis I

• Steinmetz - Materia Medica Vegetabilis II

• Steinmetz - Materia Medica Vegetabilis III

• The Dispensatory of the United States of America

• Thomas - The Eclectic Practice of Medicine

• Titus - The American Eclectic Practice of Medicine as Applied to Diseases of Domestic Animals

• Ward - Herbal Manual

• Webb - Diseases of Women & Children

• Whitford - A Treatise on Crataegus

• Williams - Report on the Indigenous Medical Botany of Massachusetts

• Wilson - Useful Prescriptions

• Wintermute - A Treatise on Macroty

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awesome online resources:

• Herbal Reality.  This is a fantastic resource for all your herbal questions:  http://www.herbalreality.com

• Henriettes Herb site.  This is a good site that many herbalists use.  http://www.henriettes-herb.com

• Simon Mills, co-founder and brilliant author also has a great site: http://selfcare-library.info

• Mrs. Grieve, A Modern Herbal. Written in the early part of the last century,  advice that is timely and historical. https://botanical.com/