Your Brain On Plants: Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe—and Proven—Medicinal Plants and Herbs

by Nicolette Perry, E.K. Perry (Contributor)

This practical, authoritative, and beautiful reference guide introduces you to more than 50 medicinal plants that offer natural, safe ways to optimize your brain health.

Expert authors and mother-daughter team Elaine and Nicolette Perry have mastered an ever-growing body of scientific research (some of which they themselves pioneered) on how medicinal plants can help you sleep soundly, reduce stress, improve your memory, and simply feel better—in body and mind.

Organized to easily steer you toward the best remedies for your individual needs, Your Brain on Plants Calming Balms Cognition Boosters Blues Busters Sleep Promoters Pain Relievers Extra Energizers Mind-Altering Plants Plant Panaceas Within each of these chapters are detailed entries for the medicinal plants and herbs suited to the task, including what scientists know about them, their active ingredients, and guidelines regarding their safe use. Make-at-home recipes for foods, teas, tinctures, balms, and cordials demonstrate how simple it is to benefit from everything these plants have to offer. Plus, foods naturally containing ingredients proven to alleviate symptoms appear throughout the book, along with complementary wellness practices such as meditating (on a chamomile lawn), qi gong (in a wildflower meadow), and walking (in woodland).

Genres: Nonfiction, Health, Science

473 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 18, 2018

Reviews

[Literary Redhead · Rating 5 out of 5]

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YOUR BRAIN ON PLANTS is a vibrant, comprehensive and beautiful reference guide for using 70+ medicinal plants to improve mind, mood and memory. Written by a mother-and-daughter team of PhD experts in neuroscience and herbal medicine, this book offers the results of scientific research, some they have pioneered themselves.

The guide covers Calming Balms, Cognition Boosters, Blues Busters, Sleep Promoters, Pain Relievers, Extra Energizers, Mind-Altering Plants, Plant Panaceas, and Resources. Each chapter includes details on related plants and herbs, scientific background, active ingredients, and safe-use directions. Also included are recipes for concocting teas, balms, food, cordials, and tinctures.

Included, as well, is the 411 on food that naturally addresses symptoms, plus practices that promote health: qi gong (in a wildflower meadow), meditating (on a chamomile lawn), and walking (in woodland). Highly recommended!

Pub Date 07 Aug 2018

Thanks to the The Experiment and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

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[Ell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love that this was written by a mother daughter duo with PhDs in neuroscience and pharmacognosy. I love that the plants mentioned in the book have scientific studies behind them and I love that the authors include notes on safety concerns for each plant mentioned. I was pleasantly surprised to find recipes in the book as well. Your Brain on Plants is well researched, well written and well organized. It has inspired me to try to grow a few of the plants myself and bake up some of the recipes.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This stunningly beautiful illustrated guide gives detailed information on plants that can be used to optimize brain health. The fact that the book is a result of the expert collaboration of a mother-daughter duo, the former with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and the latter with a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy (the study of medicine produced from plants), gives me confidence in the science of the remedies presented. The book is easy to use with eight general categories such as Calming Balms, Brain Boosters, Pain Relievers, Sleep Promoters, etc. Under each category, you can find not only in-depth information on the benefits, history and folklore, medicinal use, and safety precautions of each plant but also recipes and lifestyle tips. The degree to which each plant has been scientifically tested and validated is noted. I am reviewing an electronic advanced reading copy from NetGalley, but I am excited to get paper copy when it comes out in August 2018 because the illustrations are so gorgeous. It would almost be worth it to get the book without any content and just the pictures. There are photographs of plants and gardens but also watercolor or tissue paper technique artwork of plants. Highly recommend.

[Literary Redhead · Rating 5 out of 5]

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

YOUR BRAIN ON PLANTS is a vibrant comprehensive and beautiful reference guide for using 70+ medicinal plants to improve mind, mood and memory. Written by a mother-and-daughter team of PhD experts in neuroscience and herbal medicine, this book offers the results of scientific research, some they have pioneered themselves.

The guide covers Calming Balms, Cognition Boosters, Blues Busters, Sleep Promoters, Pain Relievers, Extra Energizers, Mind-Altering Plants, Plant Panaceas, and Resources. Each chapter includes details on related plants and herbs, scientific background, active ingredients, and safe-use directions. Also included are recipes for concocting teas, balms, food, cordials, and tinctures.

Included, as well, is the 411 on food that naturally addresses symptoms, plus practices that promote health: qi gong (in a wildflower meadow), meditating (on a chamomile lawn), and walking (in woodland). Highly recommended!

Pub Date 07 Aug 2018

Thanks to the The Experiment and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

#YourBrainOnPlants #NetGalley

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book talked about 56 plants that affect your mind or emotions. The authors covered 7 calming plants, 8 memory boosters, 8 plants that lift spirits and relieve mild depression, 7 plants that promote sleep, 7 plants that relieve pain, 7 plants that combat mental fatigue and restore vitality, 5 plants that alter your consciousness, and 5 plants that help in several ways at once. Many of these plants are easy to find, like sage, peppermint, cat mint, garlic, ginger, turmeric, green tea, blueberries, rosemary, and walnuts. Others were less common and may be more difficult to find, though I've seen many of them at my health food store.

For each plant, there's a picture of the plant plus general information about what it looks like and where it grows, historical uses and folklore, a summary of scientific studies, the bioactive ingredients, uses and how to take it, and safety warnings. There were also some recipes for foods, drinks, lotions, and such that used the herbs. While this is a very pretty and informative book, I'd hoped for more information about the scientific studies. These were summarized in a small paragraph or two while the history and folklore was usually two to three times as long.

I received an ebook review copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley.

[Lili · Rating 5 out of 5]

From netgalley for a review:

Ok, this book impressed me! I have read a lot of books on herbalism over the years and frequently get frustrated by incomplete information or information that seems to just be pulled from the writer's imagination, but this book gets things right! Including information from scientific research (including a ton of references), chemical components, warnings, and folklore...so something for everyone! I also like the inclusion of other health tips like Qigong, meditation, and massage along with various recipes, I could see myself recommending this book to people long interested in herbalism and those new to it.

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a pearl for any botanical or homeopathic library. This is a reference book about herbal that can be used for different functions of the brain like energy booster, sleep promoter or others.

[Aaliyah · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Barb B · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It gave lots of information on essential oils and what they are used for and how to use them. It could be expanded for more oils but what it covered was fantastic.

[Rae · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. So glad I purchased this book. A book I will reference regularly.

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit hard to understand with all of the scientific language and some sentences were fragmented, which confused me. However, overall great and interesting book!

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a cool book! I picked this up from the library, along with a couple of other herby books, because I wanted to learn how to manage my anxiety and hormones better without getting stuck on endless Rx's. I learned things I didn't even know I didn't know, which is always the best feeling when you want to learn something.

I learned about a handful of different herbs that I can use that I hadn't considered before, and learned more about how herbs I already knew work.

I'm ordering a copy for myself to keep as a kitchin witchin' reference. I have a feeling it'll come in handy when my little gets older and starts picking up lots of snotty toddler colds, haha.

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

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This is a pearl for any botanical or homeopathic library. This is a reference book about herbal that can be used for different functions of the brain like energy booster, sleep promoter or others.

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#YourBrainOnPlants #NetGalley

This is a pearl for any botanical or homeopathic library. This is a reference book about herbal that can be used for different functions of the brain like energy booster, sleep promoter or others.

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! It is very easy to read & filled with a lot of great information! I highly recommend this book.

[Lisabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! It is very easy to read & filled with a lot of great information! I highly recommend this book.