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Healthy Children: Optimising Children's Health with Herbs
By Kerry Bone and Rob Santich
The first comprehensive text on children's health for the natural therapist.
Healthy Children has been written with the special needs of children in mind. The benefits, risks and requirements for herbal therapy in children differ from those in adults. This book outlines the key principles that govern herbal practice for this special patient group. A well-researched text, written by Rob Santich and Kerry Bone who together have almost 50 years of clinical practice, this book provides a comprehensive treatise on the common health problems encountered by children. Sound, practical information based on clinical experience as well as evidence-based research, provides a balanced and authoritative approach to children's health.
Key Features
- The first comprehensive text on children's health for the natural therapist.
- Contains up-to-date medical and herbal information on all of the major childhood disorders.
- A detailed examination of around 40 common children's health conditions.
- Tablet and liquid protocols are provided together with relevant case histories.
- Written by authors with a combined clinical experience of around 50 years.
- Contains approximately 200 pages including a comprehensive index.
Herbal Compendium
By Kerry Bone
Open the door to a whole new way of reviewing information on herbs. Kerry Bone, with over 23 years of clinical practice, has created a desktop guide for herbalists. It contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on herbal remedies, their actions, indications, dosage, contraindications, and herb-drug reactions. Bone covers over 400 medical conditions and 190 herbs, and provides a comprehensive listing of herbs by their actions.
A Clinical Guide to Blending Liquid Herbs
Herbal Formulations for the Individual Patient
By Kerry Bone
This highly practical guide explains in-depth how to use and blend liquid extracts for optimum results making it a must for all herbal medicine clinicians and students.
Monographs of 125 popular herbs used in the form of liquid extracts provide the herbal clinician with accessible and clinically relevant information. The monographs have been specifically designed for use in the clinic with an emphasis on providing the essential information in an easy to read format and outlines traditional use and the most up-to-date pharmacological and clinical studies. This guide is comprehensively referenced and contains appendices for thorough explanations, indices of herb and herb action as well as complete glossaries and table of recommended dosages.
Clinical Applications of Ayurvedic and Chinese Herbs
For the Western Herbal Practitioner
By Kerry Bone
The purpose of this book is to provide comprehensive monographs on 32 important Ayurvedic and Chinese herbs in a form, which is suited to the practitioner of Western Herbal Medicine. The monographs emphasize the large body of pharmacological and clinical information, which is now available for these plants. The fully referenced monographs are intended as a useful tool for doctors who wish to extend their therapeutic options.
Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy
Modern Herbal Medicine
By Kerry Bone and Simon Mills
This ground-breaking text written by Kerry Bone and Simon Mills is the only comprehensive, thoroughly researched, carefully referenced, up-to-date text on the practice of herbal therapy written by leading phytotherapists who have active experience in clinical practice, education, manufacturing and research. This book is intended for practitioners, students, or the serious reader interested in herbal therapy.
It is divided in 3 parts:
- Background on Strategies covers traditional systems, principles of herbal pharmacology (including pharmokinetics) and issues of quality, safety and establishing efficacy.
- Practical Clinical Guides highlights herbal approaches to pathological states and system dysfunctions, including actual case histories.
- Materia Medica presents 44 detailed, fully-referenced monographs.
Priniples and Practice of Phytotherapy is well known as the leading text of herbal medicine in naturopathic and herbal colleges throughout the world.
The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety
Edited by Kerry Bone and Simon Mills
This innovative new book presents an extensive discussion of the principles of herbal safety and the current major issues relating to this important area. Leading international experts contribute to the book providing a wealth of information on issues such as quality, interactions, adverse reactions, toxicity, allergy, contact sensitivity and idiosyncratic reactions.
Key Features:
- Authorative and credible safety information from two experienced health care professionals specializing in herbal therapy together with world experts.
- 125 well-researched monographs - the most thorough and comprehensive text on the market for herbal safety in practice.
- Current evidence-based reviews covering factors that influence herb-safety and quality, including the negative placebo effects (nocebo), various types of unpredictable effects, the basis for interactions between herbs and drugs.
- Thoroughly critiques the dominant misinformation in the media and medical journals on herb safety issues.
- Useful appendices detailing herbal references for pregnancy and lactation considerations.
In March 2006, the American Botanical Council (ABC) announced that the Essential Guide to Herbal Safety was the recipient of the James A. Duke Botanical Literature Award which honors the singular, outstanding contribution by a book to the knowledge and understanding of medicinal and aromatic plants.