An important resource for herbal practitioners who seek creative, innovative and sophisticated clinical models to enhance their practice. Botanical Medicine 2nd Edition is designed to provide the herbal practitioner with tools for the development of clinical insights.
FEATURES:
· Accessible – formatted and presented to optimise the reader’s ability to quickly find and analyse herbal usage either by disease or by disease condition
· Includes both theoretical and practical application
· Over 300 plants are profiled – each containing information regarding the herb’s botany, chemistry and history as well as its applications and indications.
· There is an emphasis on the information required for physiotherapy.
· Clinically useful - conventionally-trained professionals will feel at ease prescribing botanicals based on the information that describes the influences of plant substances on the neuroendocrine system
· Acupuncturists and TCM professionals may prescribe based on the five-phase categorisations
· Very competitively priced
Contents:
PART ONE: SYSTEMS of PHYTOTHERAPY
Plant Substances in a Reductionist Perspective: Empirical Characteristics of Plant Components, Empirical Components of Essential Oils, Galenic Preparations of Therapeutic Plant Substances, from Empiricism to Whole-System Models. The Terrain and Whole-System Models: Terrain Concept, Typologies, Classical Whole-System Models in Physiotherapy. Whole-System Models in European Botanical Therapy: the Neuroendocrine System, the Five Phases, Oligotherapy
PART TWO: PLANT PROFILES
Five Phase Listings: Herbs for Wood Yang Pathologies, Herbs for Wood Yin Pathologies, Herbs for Fire Yang Pathologies, Herbs for Fire Yin Pathologies, Herbs for Earth Yang Pathologies, Herbs for Earth Yin Pathologies, Herbs for Metal Yang Pathologies, Herbs for Metal Yin Pathologies, Herbs for Water Yang Pathologies, Herbs for Water Yin Pathologies. Short Profiles of Other Commonly Used Plants. Commonly Used Essential Oils. Essential Oils Brief Profiles. Gemmotherapy Profiles. Oligoelement Profiles
PART THREE: THERAPEUTIC GUIDELINES ACCORING to TERRAIN
The Use of Botanicals in Healing: the Issue of Dosage, Fundamentals of Therapy. Symptoms Listing of Therapeutic Guidelines: Acute Respiratory Infections, Acute Infections and Childhood Illnesses, Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency, Influenza, Low Immunity, Fatigue Syndrome, Gynecological-Obstetric Disorders, Gastroenterological Complaints, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Genitourinary Disorders, Nervous System Disorders, Metabolic Disorders, Circulatory Disorders, Skin Disorders, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) Glossary of Terminology.
Appendix A: the Five Phases.
Appendix B: Oriental Medical Terminology.
Bibliography.
Index
