Book: The Modern Herbal Dispensatory

"A comprehensive, full-color guide to making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, The Modern Herbal Dispensatory provides instructions for everything from harvesting to administering low-cost DIY remedies to treat more than 100 illnesses. Readers you appreciate the health-giving properties of herbal medicines but are discouraged by the high price of commercial products can now make their own preparations for a fraction of the cost. Expert herbalists, Thomas Easley and Steven Horne tell you everything you need to know about harvesting, preparing and administering herbs in many different forms-covering fresh and bulk dried herbs; capsules; extracts in water, alcohol, glycerin, vinegar, and oil: and preparations like essential oils and flower essences. This book explains why some preparations of the same herb will obtain better results than others and how capsules, teas, tinctures, or glycerites of the same plant will not have exactly the same effect so that you can choos