From the Shepherd's Purse: The Identification, Preparation, and Use of Medicinal Plants

by Max G. Barlow

A modern up-to-date work on Medicinal Plants, their identification, preparation, and use. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960281207
• ISBN13: 9780960281206
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Spice West Co
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Resource!

I got this book on the recommendation of a friend. I love it! It has many of the plants that grow naturally in my own back yard and surrounding area as "weeds". I tried an "infusion" of a gumweed to help with my nightly chest heaviness which leads to horrible coughing. It worked wonderfully! No heaviness or coughing at all, I did not need the inhaler which has been my usually nightly ritual. The information is easy to read and very simplified. I have many herb and natural remedy books, but this one was concise and easy to use. It is very useful for someone wanting to get a remedy from the back yard and fix the problem, rather than going to the health food store and pay an "arm and a leg" for a bottle of something that gets used once or twice and sits on the shelf until you finally just throw it away. This will be a book that we use often.

A+ resource to identify, harvest & use medicinal herbs

This is a full-color herbal medicine book which details the complete identification, harvesting and use of 50 common remedies. It includes the medical description (emetic, antibiotic antitussive etc.) as well as the exact manner in which to prepare the herb as medication (tea amounts, preparation of ointments etc.) as well as an emergency usage guide. Harvesting is exact down to the best time of day to pick the herb. As an R.N., I have used a condensed guide to "shepherd" our five children as well as my husband through ailments as common as the common cold and as difficult as Hepatitis B. This book, along with Reader's Digest MAGIC AND MEDICINE OF PLANTS, and with my husband & my background as nurses (and the grace of the good Lord) has made visits to the doctor an almost non-existent item in our busy lives.