The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety
Alternative Medicine Holistic Health Herbal Medicine Integrative Medicine Phytotherapy Clinical Safety Health & Wellness Reference
The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety (2010, 684 pp.) is the gold-standard hardcover reference that bridges the gap between traditional plant wisdom and modern clinical evidence. Written by two of the world’s most respected phytotherapists—Simon Mills and Kerry Bone—it delivers practitioner-level depth while remaining crystal-clear for students, holistic health coaches, and anyone who wants to use herbs without guesswork. Every monograph is built around real-world safety questions: Which life-stage or drug combination turns a helpful herb into a hazard? What dosage window gives benefit without risk? How do you spot early warning signs if a client’s reaction is unusual? The answers are footnoted to human trials, pharmacovigilance data, and the authors’ decades of bedside experience, so you can cite the text in academic work or apply it confidently in clinic.
Beyond the 180+ herb profiles, the book teaches a repeatable safety framework—checklists for herb–drug interactions, liver and kidney precautions, peri-operative protocols, pregnancy-lactation ratings, and pediatric scaling. This systematic approach is why university herbal-medicine programs adopted it as a core text and why integrative physicians keep it within arm’s reach when prescribing complementary protocols. The hefty 684-page volume is sewn-bound in durable hardcover, so it lies open on a dispensary bench and survives constant cross-referencing. A single previous owner’s name has been discreetly blacked-out on the front endpaper; otherwise the pages are immaculate, unmarked, and ready for a working library or a gift to a serious herb student.
Demand for this edition has stayed strong because no newer book matches its scope: every interaction is graded by level of evidence, contraindications are separated from mere cautions, and the phytochemical explanations are current enough to satisfy 2024 standards. Whether you are formulating teas, tinctures, or capsules—or simply want to double-check that echinacea is safe with immunosuppressants—this copy gives you the confidence that safety always comes first.
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