Herbalism Pathfinder

Vukovic, L. (2003). 1001 Natural Remedies. London: DK Pub.

This book endeavors to explain as simply as possible how to create different remedies to naturally cure and fix things. It is broken up into different sections such as health, beauty, home, and pet care. It is then broken down by different ailments and needs and lists several different recipes that have been known to cure these problems. These ailments in addition to the different ingredients used to cure them are listed in the back index and are very easy to search. This is meant to be a guide to making the whole household more natural, giving remedies to a plethora of issues and making it very easy to understand and follow. It is meant to be a quick easy reference guide to the average household.

 

Shealy, C. (2002). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Healing Remedies. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element.

This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to alternative therapies including: Vitamins and Minerals, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Aromatherapy, Flower Remedies, Traditional Home and Folk Remedies, Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Ayurveda. In addition to the descriptions of the practices and techniques of each therapy it lists sources they use, ailments they treat, and the effects they have. This is an illustrated guide created by the founder of the American Holistic Medicine Association. This guide gives step by step instructions on each remedy and gives information about the history and the present of the different practices as a whole. This is in an effort to inform how each practice is used and how it has grown from its origin. This is a very good all inclusive source to help an average household transition into a more natural form of medicine.

 

 

Herbal health. (1998). Environmental Health Perspectives, 106(12), A590-A592.

This article covers the International Workshop on Evaluating Research Needs on the Use and Safety of Medicinal Herbs. This article and workshop aimed to answer what more do us as a community need to learn about herbal products. This workshop was important in trying to define what is already known about herbs as medicine that had been discovered in the past and what still needs to be explored and discovered for the future to further medicine as we know it. It answers who uses medicinal herbs, typically white, college graduate, middle age, females. It also discusses the international use of medicinal herbs, in addition to addressing research needs. Finally it sums up by discussing botanicals as they are used now and in the future.

 

Moore, S. (2003). A Prairie Pharmacy: An Introduction to Herbalism. The American Biology Teacher, 65(4), 249-256.

This article follows a teacher and how she structured a lab for class in order to teach basic herbalism. She discusses the difficulty of structuring the class so that what was originally more focused on physiology and anatomy for non-science majors becomes more of an introduction to herbalism because science majors signed up for the course and she did not want the information to be redundant. It begins with a brief history of herbalism then goes into a discussion about it. Then the article has a table with different herbs, names, when they flower, and medicinal properties. It then has a supply list, steps, and an explanation of the different procedures. This article has many different lab procedures and explanations to teach about basic herbalism.  

 

Evertsen King, L. (1902). Some of the Medicinal and Edible Plants of Southern California. Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County, 5(3), 237-240.

This article details some of the history of herbalism in the past in southern California. It goes into the history and lore of the tribes in the area. This leads into the use of shamanism and of a tribal healer and their methods. This article does focus quite a bit on the history of the area but it also discusses the herbs of the area as well. It lists these herbs out and talks about how the early people that lived in the area utilized them. The article also discusses in addition to history the different kinds of herbs found in this area, the medicinal properties of these herbs, and possible negative side effects that they could potentially produce.