Herbs of Life : Health and Healing Using Western and Chinese Techniques

by Lesley Tierra

Contents:

• Introduction
• I. How to Use Herbs for Health and Healing:
1. The nature of herbal healing
2. The energy of herbs
3. The energy of illness
4. Herbal properties, constituents, families and formulas
5. Knowing the herbs
• II. How to Regain and Maintain Health:
1. The energy of food
2. The process of health and healing
3. Living with the seasons
4. Home remedies
5. Home Therapies
• III. How to Obtain and Make your own Healing Tools:
1. Harvesting, preparing and storing herbs
2. Herbal preparations
3. How to shop for herbs
4. Herbal medicine kits. Appendices:
5. Symptoms and their remedies
6. A few tips for mothers and children
7. Macrobiotics and the system of traditional Chinese Medicine (by Michael Tierra)
• Bibliography
• Weights and measures
• Index