The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual
by James Green
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Author: James GreenIllustrator: Ajana
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-12-30
ISBN: 0895949903
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Crossing Press
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Book Review: The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual
Summary: 5 Stars
The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual:
Written by James Green and Illustrated by his daughter Ajana Green is a wonderful how to book. If you are interested in making your own home remedies, this book will guide you to making them.
Gardening and Harvesting, drying, garbling, and storing are covered and a list of items needed for your kitchen pharmacy is included. It takes you through the extraction process, tells about solvents and gives a listing of the different forms of herbal medicine. Different techniques are covered such as infusion, decoction, distillation of hydrosols, tincture by maceration and percolation. there are chapters covering wine infusion, vinegar infusion, glycerin infusion and oil infusion. All process to get the desired product from the plant itself.
Ointments, salves, and balms; along with lotions, creams, suppositories and boluses are covered, making this one of the most complete books for the layperson, complete with step by step processes it a down home style of writing that can be understood.
Syrups, honeys, oxymels, and electuaries, along with baths for water therapy and poultices and fomentations can be found in this book. Thus, making it a well rounded book for the "kitchen pharmacy" to be successful. This book covers techniques and terminology and other considerations on how and why certain products can be made.
This book gives the reader, through techniques on how to make these different products. Techniques that were long ago taught to pharmacists when they actually compounded a prescription from a doctor using herbal products. The actual "kitchen pharmacy" is using some of the common things that you already have at home. Jars and bottles to hold, blend, shake, seal and store the products. Rubber spatulas, electric coffee grinder, mortar and pestle, measuring cups, strainers, double boiler, funnels, and mixing bowls. All of these should be common in todays kitchen where someone is comfortable and handy at preparing homemade meals. There are references to other items that are commonly found and used at home and in the kitchen. Believe it or not you probably have most of these items in your kitchen.
I gave this book 5 stars for the detail that went into listing, how to, and detail of making your own herbal medicines. The caveat here is standardization... you don't really know the quantity of the herbal extract you'll get... this depends on how much is found it the plants themselves and how they are stored. Quantitatively and qualitatively you can run the same plants and get different results.
Summary of The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual
THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER'¬?S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE MALE HERBAL. Writing in a delightfully personal and down-home style, Green emphasizes the point that herbal medicine-making is fundamental to every culture on the planet and is accessible to everyone. So, first head into the garden and learn to harvest your own herbs, and then head into your kitchen and whip up a batch of raspberry cough syrup, or perhaps a soothing elixir to erase the daily stresses of modern life.Alternative Medicine Books
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