Aryana Libris

Author : Moore Michael
Title : Herb Formulas for clinic and home
Year : 1995

Link download : Moore_Michael_-_Herb_Formulas_for_clinic_and_home.zip

75 Formulas for making Herbal Preparations, including Tooth Powders, Tincture Formulas, Constitutional Tonics, Tea Blends, Salves, Ointments, Liniments, Elixirs, Cough Syrups...even Guarana Fudge, with a Materia Medica that defines the herbs, formats, and preparations discussed. These are a variety of formulas I have used in my business and practice over the years. Some are elegant, some are silly and trivial, some are very useful therapeutic formulas. I have mixed them all together with little by way of editorializing. Some of the herbs are readily available in commerce, some are obscure, since I have been gathering, selling, using, teaching and writing about herbs in the Western United States for 25 years and have come to know a lot of useful plants not often encountered in commerce. Many former students market them commercially, but since I try to teach bioregional herbalism, they TOO are mostly in business in the west. Herbs Etcetera of Santa Fe, Dragon River Herbals, Wyoming Wildcrafters, Bisbee Botanicals, The Herbalist (Seattle) and The Herb Store are some of the more visibly marketed of these lines (there are many more with a more local focus) and some of these obscure herbs are now to be found in the catalogues of Eclectic Institute, The Herb Pharm, Herbalist and Alchemist and Blessed Herbs. Anyway, scrambling around to try and locate some wierd exotic 'cause Moore says so isn't the point. I have offered some substitutes, if you know YOUR herbs real well make your own substitutes and otherwise just try the stuff that you can get the herbs for. I have always maintained that formulas are the LEAST important part of herbalism anyway. You can get the same effects from 100 different variations of various herbs. You need to know the craft well in order to get the same end result using other paths, but the actual formula isn't all that important...knowing the palette is. Anytime I see references to some "secret formula" I walk away. The VAST majority of physiologic reactions produced by herbs are repeated OVER and OVER endlessly in different plants, the physioogic effects that are beneficial in plants that are ingested are really only a few. Although a specific herb may offer a subtle range of physiologic colors that warrant a homeopathic profile or a classic Eclectic Specific Indication seperating its energy completely from other herbs, the mixing of stuff together reduces the subtleties to a gentle grey noise and you are left with the predominate effects. The Eclectics often raged against polypharmacy for the simple reason that botanical subtleties are lost. At the very same time most of them grimaced and ended up using formulas most of the time. They are simpler, effective, and, since most disease is self-limiting and not always so subtle, often all that's needed. Besides, having a bunch of useful formulas around the house (or, if you are a practitioner or physician, around the clinic) covers most bases and allows YOU to control the resources. You don't need to go trundling about seeing an Eclectic M.D. (100 years ago) or trying to figure out where to find a professional herbalist in the yellow pages (there aren't many of us). ...