The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals

By Leslie Taylor

Book Overview

Rainforests contain an amazing abundance of plant life--over half of the planet's vegetation. For centuries, tribal shamans have successfully used these botanicals as remedies for various health disorders. Now, scientists have begun to uncover the medicinal qualities of these plants, which offer new approaches to health and healing. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs is a unique guide to these herbs and their uses.

Detailing more than seventy rainforest botanicals, this book presents the history of the herbs' uses by indigenous peoples and describes current usage by natural health practitioners throughout the world. Discover Amazon healers' traditional knowledge, as well as the clinical studies that support what shamans have known for ages. Essential dosage and preparation methods are provided, while at-a-glance tables help you locate the best botanicals for each disorder. Here is a unique book that offers a blend of ancient and modern knowledge in an accessible reference format.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0757001440
• ISBN13: 9780757001444
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Square One Publishers
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Health is wealth, knowledge is power!

God said choose life or death! God gave us herbs. Use them. Man gave us pills, avoid them. Pills kill and herbs cure. Make your choice. Pills made my life hard and I almost submitted to a useless operation. Desperately, I looked for another choice. Herbs gave me the answer. No operation needed, life is good again!!!

Excellent Book on the Subject.

I am an herbalist who was looking for a good book on Rain Forest Herbs without all the hype that had a least some science it in to complement information about traditional uses. Too many herbal books have either no science behind them or have such reductionist science based on faulty studies and assumptions that the information is usless. I often suspect that hype about the use of such herbs as Maca root is overblown and I needed factual information from a reliable source. I bought this book sight unseen based on some of the reviews and I was not disapointed. It combines traditional use with scientific studies and lots of information about each herb. Naturopathic Physician author Leslie Taylor needs to be congratulated for her contribution to the growing knowledge about Rain Forest Herbs: not only their uses but their preservation instead of exploitation.

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs is now my favorite book

This book is Amazing. I highly recomend this book to any one who is serious about remaining healthy as well as healing. I will be keeping this book very close to me for a long time to come.

A guide to over seventy rainforest botanicals and their uses

Rainforests contain hundreds of plants - over half the planet's vegetation - and for centuries tribal shamans have used these plants as health remedies. Years of research contributes to The Healing Power Of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide To Understanding And Using Herbal Medicinals, a guide to over seventy rainforest botanicals and their uses by indigenous peoples and natural health professionals alike. Chapters offer plant data summary charts, biological and clinical research, tribal uses, and plenty of technical, research-based reference material. From dosage to preparation methods and chemical information for each plant, Healing Power Of Rainforest Herbs goes far beyond the 'new age healing guide' it looks to be at first glance. Very highly recommended indeed.