[.ca] 10 Essential Herbs (ISBN 0934252483)

This is a wonderful book!:
This is a great book for anyone that wants to take responsibility for maintaining good health with herbs. The directions and recipes are simple and I like the little success stories scattered throughout the book. All of the herbs addressed are easy to come by too, so everyone can participate as much as they like. The author does use chaparral and comfrey internally, but no one should take any herb every day, and some people are allergic to pharmaceuticals and drugs too, so use common sense! This book is very inspirational, and I use many of the remedies myself.

My Right Hand Man:
I have a large library of natural healing and nutritional books and this book is ALWAYS the one that works for me, our family and even our pets. Lalitha has written a masterpiece in this book and everything she features in it is easy to get and some of it probably grows in your yard or somewhere near by. I have personally seen terrible conditions healed quickly and thoroughly with remedies laid out in this book, and I have two copies in case I can not find one in an emergency. The book is well laid out, easy to look up, excellent index and each herb has a delightful profile page. It is like a course in herbs and you will learn a lot.

Have tried some of the remedies.:
I stumbled over this book while in community college. In May of 2000, I had a regular pap smear done and there was a diagnosis of cervical dysplasia. Though I could not afford to get my cervix scraped, I figured why wait to find out if it was genital warts. I took the 21 day chapparal cleanse. Later on, a pap smear was redone and there were no signs of abnormal cells. And also when I had a herpes break-out, chapparal gave me such relief. Chapparal, just as any other potent herb should be used with good instruction and I believe Lalitha knows what she is talking about.

Good, but beware:
Mostly excellent ideas, but some should be taken with a grain of salt. For instance, one of the herbs Ms. Thomas recommends for internal use is Chaparral, a plant that has been known to cause kidney and lymph lesions and liver failure if taken internally.

Excellent material, easy to follow and very informative.:
i use this book constantly. the herbs are easy to access, the material gives easy to follow information on how to incorporate the herbs into your life. it is excellent. i read herbal books constantly, and have quite a library. when i need information, or i need a remedy....this is the book i run to.