Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine
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Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine (2nd ed., 2010, Elsevier, 643 pp.) is the gold-standard hardcover reference that clinicians, herbal-studies students, and serious home herbalists reach for when they want evidence-backed plant medicine—not folklore. Authors Kerry Bone and Simon Mills—two of the most respected voices in contemporary phytotherapy—distil thousands of clinical trials, pharmacokinetic studies, and decades of bedside experience into monographs on 44 of the world’s most-used herbs (echinacea, turmeric, hawthorn, St. John’s wort, etc.). Each monograph gives exact dosages, contraindications, herb-drug interactions, and solvent ratios used in successful trials, so you can formulate tinctures, tablets, or teas with the same precision expected in conventional pharmaceuticals.
What makes this copy especially appealing is its immaculate, smoke-free provenance: the pages are crisp, unmarked, and free of the shelf-warp common to heavier medical texts, so it will sit flat on a dispensary counter or library desk. The durable library-grade binding and laminated boards are built for daily consultation, yet this second-hand edition offers significant savings over the £100+ retail price of a new hardcover. ISBN 9780443060168 ensures you are getting the fully revised 2010 printing that added 150 pages on safety data, regulatory status, and quality-control testing—information still current in 2024.
Collectors and practitioners value this particular Elsevier pressing because it bridges the gap between old-school herbalism and modern integrative medicine. You will find protocols for asthma, IBS, menopause, anxiety, and resistant skin infections side-by-side with quick-scan tables on adulterants, sustainable sourcing, and carbon footprints of wild-crafted species. Whether you are building a professional reference library or upgrading your personal health shelf, this single volume replaces a stack of smaller herbals while keeping its resale value—searches for “Kerry Bone phytotherapy hardcover” consistently rank this ISBN among the top five requested out-of-print medical herbals.
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