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Overview
Herbalist Michael Moore, one of the founders of the modern herbal medicine movement in the United States, here updates in expanded form his classic work Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West, the indispensable field guide to identifying southwestern medicinal plants and their preparation and use. Drawing on a thirty-five-year career as a teacher, merchant, and alternative-medicine practitioner, Moore has produced the most accessible herbal available for professionals and non-professionals alike. Practical and user-friendly, this guide to one hundred twenty-nine medicinal plants, with its extensive therapeutic index covering hundreds of common ailments and conditions, provides essential herbal remedies for the panoply of nonacute diseases left unaddressed by standard-practice medicine.Synopsis
Much new information has become available since he wrote the 1979 edition, says herbalist Moore, but most of it focused on a few plants with potential as lucrative products for corporations, a trend he finds pernicious. People should learn about the plants themselves, and about their use in personal and family health, he says. He updates his guide to help them. The articles on specific herbs are supported by an index of therapeutic use, line drawings by Mimi Kamp and distribution maps for each herb, and 16 pages of color photographs. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR