Healing with the Herbs of Life

by Lesley Tierra

If you have been daunted by complicated, esoteric herbal books in the past, Healing with the Herbs of Life offers clear and concise explanations of how and why herbs heal. It also provides step-by-step instructions for creating your own herbal remedies, therapeutic approaches you can use at home, and easy-to-follow guidelines for gathering, preparing, purchasing, and storing herbs. Previously published as The Herbs of Life, this completely revised and updated edition synthesizes the great herbal traditions of China and India with Western herbology to form a new kind of planetary herbal.
· Features a new chapter on treating specific conditions, expanded chapters in Materia Medica and the energy of food, and revised chapters on living with the seasons and home therapies
· With new information on herbal safety and drug/herb interactions.
· The previous edition, The Herbs of Life , sold 45,000 copies.

Genres: Herbs, Health, Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Lesley Tierra, L.AC., AHG is a California State and nationally certified acupuncturist and herbalist. In her practice, she combines acupuncture, herb and food therapies along with lifestyle and inner growth counseling. She is a founding professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. Lesley is the author of The Herbs of Life, published by Crossing Press in 1992 and Healing with Chinese Herbs, also published by Crossing Press in 1997. She collaborated with Michael Tierra to produce the East West Herb Course and is its dean. She also co-authored Chinese-Planetary Herbal Diagnosis with Michael and Chinese Herbal Medicine (Lotus Press). She has also co-authored with Michael a two volume text on Chinese Herbal Medicine, published by Lotus Press. In addition she has written a special herbal for young children.

Lesley is a student of many spiritual disciplines and specially guides women on personal spiritual vision quests in the desert. In addition she is a photographer, dancer, cello student, a onetime synchronized swimmer athlete, and a mother/step-mother of five children.

Reviews

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

extremely informative. a book i revisit frequently with health questions.

[Plant Girl]

I love this book! I use it often and almost always find it helpful.