Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, Volume 3: Endocrinology by Jill Stansbury

Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, Volume 3: Endocrinology by Jill Stansbury ISBN-13: 9781603588553 Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Released: April 23, 2019

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description from Goodreads:
Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals is a five-volume set that serves as a comprehensive, practical reference manual for herbalists, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.

Dr. Jill Stansbury draws on her decades of clinical experience and her extensive research to provide an unparalleled range of herbal formulas. Organized by body system, each volume includes hundreds of formulas to treat common health conditions, as well as formulas that address specific energetic or symptomatic presentations. For each formula, Dr. Stansbury briefly explains how the selected herbs address the specific condition. Sidebars and user-friendly lists help readers quickly choose which herbs are best for specific presentations and detail traditional uses of both Western and traditional Asian formulas and herbs that are readily available in the United States.

Volume 3 focuses on endocrine systems, offering formulas and supporting information for treating thyroid disease, adrenal disorders, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. This volume also covers the female and male reproductive systems including conditions related to menstruation and PMS, fertility and pregnancy, and the prostate. Reproductive endocrinology is one of Dr. Stansbury’s specialties, and she provides herbal formulas and therapies for pelvic inflammatory disease, genital herpes, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, PCOS, uterine fibroids, low libido, erectile dysfunction, and more. She also discusses the role of herbal medicine in prevention and treatment of reproductive cancers.


My Review:
Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, Volume 3: Endocrinology is a reference manual for herbalists and health professionals. This volume focused on endocrine systems. The author started the book by describing how to create your own formulas, but she provided suggested formulas in the book to give you an idea of what might work well if you're not yet comfortable creating your own. The first section talked about the causes of thyroid disease and suggested specific formulas for various thyroid and adrenal disorders. The second section looked at diabetes and metabolic conditions with specific formulas for various diabetes-related problems. The last section covered reproductive endocrinology and provided formulas for things like genital herpes, HPV, premenstrual syndrome, irregular periods, pregnancy-related issues, and more.

In each section, she included several sidebars about specific herbs--their uses and the findings of various scientific studies. At the end of each section, she listed the herbs used in that section along with the common name and what it's good for (in relation to that topic). Even in the formulas, she'd usually say she was using this herb for this purpose and that herb for that purpose. The formulas were usually mixing a tincture by combining individual herbal tinctures (this many drops of this herb). She also suggested tea mixes and sometimes even food recipes (especially in the diabetes section). Overall, I found this book informative and useful, though the text was in rather a small font and (personally) I would have found it easier if she had used common names along with the scientific names in the formulas.


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