Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, Volume 1: Digestion and Elimination, including the Gastrointestinal System, Liver and Gallbladder, Urinary System, and the Skin

My wife loved this book as a Christmas present. Thank you! Well packaged and in tip top shape.

There is nothing I dislike about this book. It is bound well and the price is is worth every penny. As a new herbalist working on clinical exams, I have found this book an important reference tool for practice. Formulation is the one aspect of dealing with clients that is most difficult for many and the author makes this knowledge attainable in an orderly fashion that I have not seen in other books. Highly recommend.

Good book just this one took way too long to arrive sent it back ordered another place I did send one back.

Arrived ahead of schedule, excellent reference - used as reference by 7Song.

First let me say as book lover, this a thoughtful, beautiful (text) book that is well laid out, easy on the eyes (great spacing and font choice), and lovely to navigate. As a student of herbalism, I feel the book is wonderfully priced and the information contained within is thorough but incredibly accessible to a novice or a veteran of the herbal arts. Thank you Jill for this great resource, and I’m looking forward future volumes!

Pretty much everyone I know (myself included) who has seen Jill Stansbury present on herbs and their uses finds themselves more than impressed, and looking forward to seeing her do so again. So to hear that Jill has volumes of material coming out in book form has lots of people anxious to get ahold of them. After reading through this first volume, I can pass and that, yeah, it's beyond awesome.What makes Jill such a great herbalist and practitioner is that her understanding runs deep, and, best of all, is rooted in herbalism. That might seem a funny thing to say: "This herb book was written by an actual herbalist!", but a goodly number of them, and especially those offered as more clinical in nature, aren't always (or even if they are, focus more on using herbs integrated into a more conventional medicine model than a traditional herbal one). Jill's focus on herbal actions and herbal energetics is what makes this book so phenomenal, since it is these considerations that allow you to come up with treatments for the ~person~ you're working with, and not just the name of whatever condition or imbalance they have. Likewise, her presentations of the variability of, for example, all the different antispasmodics one might choose isn't simplified to a quantitative "weaker to stronger" list, but described by the systems they affect and the qualitative nature of the tension or cramping they work best on. The formularie itself gives numerous suggestions for each malady it addresses, based on presentation. While the formulas are rooted in traditional herbalism, there's also plenty of information on the constiuents given herbs add to the blends they're in.Essentially, this book gives the practicing western herbalist/naturopath exactly what they need to both apply this information and to use it as a jumping off point to their own strategies using the herbs the herbs they're familiar with. Couldn't recommend it enough.And the best part? Jill has more volumes like this on the way!

Highly recommended book. Haven’t had the chance to read it yet but looking forward to it. Unfortunately the one star is because it arrived a bit damaged but not worth exchanging and I normally wouldn’t mind but it is a bit of a pricey book.

Worth it if you enjoy a comprehensive study.

Easy to read. Extremely useful for both clinicians and novice alike

I find this such an excellent book, I will recommend it to all my serious students wanting to get to the clinical level. Well laid out for a practitioner and helps us enter into a new era of Botanical Formularies. Well done Dr Jill Stansbury. I can't wait for the other 4 in the series. I kind of wish it also came as a electron version (Kindle) also, so it could be more portable.

Very good book, a must have!

Significant contribution to herbal formulation. Thank you Jill.

I am a nurse and an acupuncturist. I had also studied naturopathy in Barcelona and I can tell you this is a master piece. It is not only what the content is but also the way is presented.It contains lots of information about plants including references to modern studies, and also traditional uses, different compounds. It also gives you a METHOD how to prepare a herbal formula that is very very helpful. Preparing a herbal formula is not putting herbs together you have to add the main herb/s, a messenger, etc.. and Dr. Stansbury does it perfectly.She also makes comments of herbs used in Chinese medicine and of westerns herbs with the actions of traditional medicine actions. This last part is specially useful for the acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners for we have another approach and in that way we can use the western herbs in the TCM way.All different formulas are explained and can be modified according to someone necessities.From the first page I was learning something new and believe me I have lots of books in herbalism.I am waiting to purchase volume 5 as soon it will be released. I am not overenthusiastic by saying all that I am being very realistic. I have no commission or whatsoever I just want to share my enthusiasm and my gratitude to Dr Stansbury for her titanic effort in writing those volumes.Dr. Stansbury Thank you very much if you read this comment.