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Reading List on Herbal Medicine

The following list shows some of the books available on herbal medicine.

Books marked G are in the German language; those marked CH are in Chinese.

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Books

 

General HistoryBack to top of page

Culpeper N. A Key to Galen's Method of Physic, included in Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged. Meyerbooks, Glenwood, Illinois (1990)

Griggs B. Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine, 2nd edn. Healing Arts. Rochester, Vermont (1997)

Jones WHS (transl). Hippocrates vol. IV. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1998)

 

Early Western Texts (100-1730Back to top of page  ad)

Culpeper N. Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged. Meyerbooks, Glenwood, Illinois (1990)

Dioscorides P. Kreutterbuch (1610).Reprinted by Verlag Konrad Kölbl, München, Germany
(1960) G

Gerard J. The Herbal or General History of Plants: The Complete 1633 Edition as Revised and Enlarged by Thomas Johnson. Dover Publications, New York, New York (1975)

Lonicerus A. Kreuterbuch (1679). Reprinted by Verlag Konrad Kölbl, München, Germany
(1962) G

Tabernaemontanus JT. Krãuterbuch (1731). Reprinted by Verlag Konrad Kölbl, München, Germany (1993) G

Von Bingen H. Hildegard von Bingen's Physica. Healing Arts, Rochester, Vermont (1998)

 

Physiomedical TextsBack to top of page

Lyle TJ. Physio-Medical Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Pharmacy. Originally published Ohio (1897). Reprinted by the National Association of Medical Herbalists of Great Britain, London, United Kingdom (1932)

Priest AW, Priest LR. Herbal Medication. L.N. Fowler, Romford Essex, United Kingdom (1982)

 

Eclectic TextsBack to top of page

Cook WH. The Physio-Medical Dispensatory, Cincinnati (1869). Reprinted by Eclectic Press, Portland, Oregon (1985)

Ellingwood F. American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 11th edn. (1919). Reprinted by Eclectic Medical Publications, Sandy, Oregon (1994)

Felter HW and Lloyd JU. King's American Dispensatory, vols 1 and 2, 18th edn. (1898). Reprinted by Eclectic Medical Publications, Sandy, Oregon (1983)

 

Modern Western TextsBack to top of page

British Herbal Pharmacopoeia. British Herbal Medicine Association. West Yorks, United Kingdom (1983) Christopher JR. School of Natural Healing. BiWorld, Provo, Utah (1976)

Green, J. The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook. Crossing Press (2000)

Grieve M. A Modern Herbal, vols. 1 and 2. Dover Publications, New York, New York (1971)

Kloss J. Back to Eden, 5th edn. (1939). Reprinted by Lifeline Books, Santa Barbara, California (1975)

Mabey R (ed). The New Age Herbalist. Gaia Books (?) (1988)

Mills S, Bone K. Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2000)

Priest AW, Priest LR. Herbal Medication. L.N. Fowler, Romford Essex, United Kingdom (1982)

Tierra M. Planetary Herbology. Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin (1988)

Weiss RF. Herbal Medicine, English edn. Beaconsfield Publishers, Beaconsfield, United Kingdom (1988)

 

Oriental Herbal TextsBack to top of page


General

Perry LM. Medicinal Plants of East and Southeast Asia. The MIT Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (1980)

Chinese herbal texts

Bensky D, Barolet R, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies. Eastland Press, Seattle, Washington (1990)

Bensky D, Gamble A, Kaptchuck T. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica. Eastland Press, Seattle, Washington (1986)

Jiangsu New Medicine Institute. IB Science and Technology Press, Shanghai, China (1975)CH

Yang Yi-fan. Chinese Herbal Medicines. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2002)

Yeung H-C. Handbook of Chinese Herbs and Formulas vol 1. Institute of Chinese Medicine, Los Angeles, California (1985)

Books

 

BotanyBack to top of page

Bailey J. The Penguin Dictionary of Plant Sciences, 2nd edn. Penguin Books, London, England (1999)

Blunt W. The Compleat Naturalist- A Life of Linnaeus. William Collins, London, United Kingdom (1971)

Harris JG, Harris MW. Plant Identification Terminology. Spring Lake Publishing, Spring Lake, Utah (1994)

Stearn WT. Botanical Latin, 4th edn. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon (1992)

Zomlefer WB. Guide to Flowering Plant Families. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1994)

 

ResearchBack to top of page


Plant constituents

Bisset NG (ed). Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. English edn. Medpharm, Stuttgart, Germany (1994), from 2nd German edn. Wichtl M (ed) (1989)

Bradley PR (ed). British Herbal Compendium, vol 1. British Herbal Medicine Association, Bournemouth, United Kingdom (1992)

Bruneton J. Pharmacognosy: Phytochemistry Medicinal Plants, 2nd edn. Lavoisier, Paris, France (1999)

Evans WC. Trease and Evans' Pharmacognosy, 14th edn. WB Saunders, London, United Kingdom (1996)

Phytopharmacology and clinical research

Chang H-M, But PP-H (eds). Pharmacology and Applications of Chinese Materia Medica, vols. 1 and 2. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (1986)

European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy: Monographs on the medicinal uses of plant drugs. European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, Exeter, United Kingdom (1997)

Mills S, Bone K. Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2000)

 

Medical AromatherapyBack to top of page

Mailhebiau P. Portraits in Oils. The C.W. Daniel Company, Saffron Walden, United Kingdom (1995)

Tisserand R, Balacs T. Essential Oil Safety: A guide for Health Care Professionals. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (1995)

 

Safety and Herbal Medicine

McGuffin M, Hobbs C, Upton R et al. American Herbal Products Association's Botanical Safety Handbook. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida (1997)


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