Herbal Medicine for Emotional Healing by Tina Sams

Herbal Medicine for Emotional Healing by Tina Sams ISBN-13: 978-1646119974 Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Rockridge Press Released: June 16th 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher.

Book Description, Modified from Amazon:
Employ gentle yet effective plant medicines to support your emotional well-being. These herbal medicine remedies can work to relieve symptoms of depression, anxiety, phobias, and stress―or provide aid during times of grief or worry. Explore the basics of herbal medicine and its many emotional applications. Learn to make teas, tinctures, salves, and other simple but potent preparations, all with key safety guidelines.

Herbal Medicine for Emotional Healing includes: 101 rejuvenating recipes―Make targeted formulas like Fear of Flying Tincture, Sore Muscle Salve, Soothe-the-Mood Syrup, Sleep Potion, and more. 31 herbal allies―Find the therapeutic uses of individual herbs, plus their key cautions and interactions, common preparations, and recommended doses.


My Review:
Herbal Medicine for Emotional Healing provides herbal recipes to help relieve stress, depression, anxiety, and grief. The author started by talking about using herbs and described how to make your own infusions, salves, tinctures, etc. She then included 101 recipes for 30 conditions. She had sections for a variety of different emotional issues (like anger, anxiety, panic, grief, stress, baby blues) and physical, related issues (like tense muscles, headaches, upset stomach, poor sleep, and poor circulation). She also covered things like PMS and better concentration. The recipes ranged from teas, tinctures, and salves to shampoos and facial masks. These recipes looked relatively easy to do as long as you have access to the fairly common herbs used.

She then included profiles for 31 herbs; these herbs were used in her recipes. Each profile was about a page long and covered the herb's Latin name, common names, a brief description of the herb and traditional uses, the herb's energetics, therapeutic actions, what issues it's used to address, the part of the plant used, how it is used (tea, tincture, salve, etc.), common medicinal uses, recommended dosing, and safety considerations. The profiles were not very extensive but provided good, basic information. Overall, I'd recommend this book to beginners at using herbs who would like recipes for these types of issues.


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