HEALING MEDICINE A Complete Guide to Safer Healing Steve Blake, D.Sc., Doctor of Holistic Health Created in response to the growing need for a safer and more effective health care system, Healing Medicine provides natural self-care solutions that teach you how to create a lifetime of health without drugs.

We need a new medical system that starts with guarding
our health, continues with safer, natural approaches,
and is completed with powerful medical techniques.

Key Features:

* Reduce your risk of chronic diseases such as cancer & heart disease.
*Learn to cleanse and strengthen body systems.
*Carefully researched with hundreds of references for further study.
*Avoid the secret dangers of food processing.
*Discover a deeper diagnosis that reveals the true causes of disease.
*Learn to avoid the perils of modern medicine.
*Find out how to prevent stress and dynamically relax.


This book is full of new ideas!

“A very thorough analysis of the state of modern medicine...a very balanced approach”
Charles Inlander, author of Medicine on Trial.

Medicinal Plant Names
An Electronic Book

� Medicinal Plant Names is a 313 page electronic book in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. It is an indispensable guide to all who work with medicinal plants. Common names of herbs are easy to translate to botanical names with this essential guide. Quickly look up foreign names for medicinal plants in many languages.

• � Did you ever look for a plant with a common name such as buffalo herb (alfalfa)? Have you ever needed to translate a foreign herb name like cot chu (the Vietnamese name for psoralia seeds)? Have you ever read a reference to an obsolete botanical name such as hydrocotyle Asiatica (gotu kola)? There are 7900 such translations in this book.
• � This book is in two parts. Part I lists over 700 medicinal plants followed by their botanical name, family name, foreign names, and other various names. Summaries of each medicinal plant are included for most of these plants.
• � Part II will help you find the common name of medicinal plants from an alternate name. This book lists over 7900 names including foreign, ethnic, alternate, botanical, and family names of medicinal plants. These names are translated to the common name. The names are drawn from hundreds of books and references from 35 different countries.
• � Once a name has been translated into a common name, the common name can be looked up in Part I. In this electronic book, you may use the find feature (an icon like binoculars) to quickly go to any word or phrase.

Herbal Property Dictionary
An Electronic Book

� The Herbal Property Dictionary is a 258 page electronic book in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Every serious herbalist needs to have this reference available. Included are 862 properties, actions and effects of medicinal plants. Each property is defined. There are thousands of examples of herbs with these properties.

• � Herbalists and other phytotherapists have been using properties to describe medicinal plants for hundreds of years. Much of the information about medicinal plants is in the form of their actions. Rather than saying a plant is used for insomnia, many references will state that it has the action “sedative” or “hypnotic”. Properties and actions of medicinal plants describe the action of the plant on the body.
• � If you already know what an antidyscratic herb does, you will love this reference! There are many obscure properties in herbal books: alexeteric, pulicide, rubefacient, schizonticide, stimulant, sternutatory, and taeniafuge are some examples. Find the definitions and examples with the Herbal Property Dictionary.
• � The Herbal Property Dictionary does more than just list examples of plants with each property. The numbers of agreeing references are included to see which properties are attributed to a plant by multiple authors. For example, 16 books agree that fennel seeds are carminative, while just one book lists wood betony as carminative.
• � This book has a companion volume called Medicinal Plant Actions. Medicinal Plant Actions lists 711 medicinal plants, each followed by its actions.
• � In this electronic book, you may use the find feature (an icon like binoculars) to quickly go to any word or phrase.

Medicinal Plant Actions
An Electronic Book

� Medicinal Plant Actions is a 185 page electronic book in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. This herbal reference covers 711 medicinal plants with their actions and properties. Each medicinal plant has a list of names including botanical names.

• � Celery seeds are a tasty spice, but did you know that they are also diuretic and stimulating? With Medicinal Plant Actions, you can look up your favorite herbs and discover beneficial effects you never knew they had.
• � Herbalists and other phytotherapists have been using properties to describe medicinal plants for hundreds of years. Much of the information about medicinal plants is in the form of their actions. Rather than saying a plant is used for insomnia, many references will state that it has the action “sedative” or “hypnotic”. Properties and actions of medicinal plants describe the action of the plant on the body.
• � Medicinal Plant Actions does more than just list actions and properties for each plant. The numbers of agreeing references are included to see which properties are attributed to a plant by multiple authors. For example, 13 books agree that licorice is demulcent, while just one book lists licorice as emetic. 
• � Increase your understanding of medicinal plants and enjoy the broad scope of information gathered together into one concise electronic volume.
• � This book has a companion volume called the Herbal Property Dictionary. This companion volume defines hundreds of the properties.
• � In this electronic book, you may use the find feature (an icon like binoculars) to quickly go to any word or phrase.

Constituents of Medicinal Plants
An Electronic Book

Constituents of Medicinal Plants is a 914 page electronic book in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. This definitive herbal reference covers over 3000 constituents of medicinal plants with definitions for about one third of these constituents. In tens of thousands of cases, these constituents have quantitative data included.

• � Chamomile makes a soothing tea. Did you know that the blue oil in chamomile is azulene, an active anti-inflammatory? Did you know that azulene is also found in peppermint, valerian, and yarrow? Azulene is also found in cubeb, elecampane, and patchouli.
• � Phytomedicine is now becoming recognized as a science. This information on the constituents of the medicinal plants clarifies the uses of these plants. As more phytochemicals are being discovered and tested, traditional uses of the medicinal plants are being verified. This provides a theoretical background for empirical knowledge.
• � Constituents of Medicinal Plants does more than just list constituents for each plant. There are almost one thousand definitions of these plant chemicals. Examples and therapeutic actions are given. Most valuable and unique are the listings of plants containing these constituents.
• � Increase your understanding of medicinal plant chemicals and enjoy the broad scope of information gathered together into one concise electronic volume.
• � This book has a companion volume called the Medicinal Plant Constituents. This companion volume lists over 700 medicinal plants followed by their phytochemical constituents.
• � In this electronic book, you may use the find feature (an icon like binoculars) to quickly go to any word or phrase.

Medicinal Plant Constituents
An Electronic Book

Medicinal Plant Constituents is a 542 page electronic book in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. This manual of phytochemicals has detailed constituent information for over 600 medicinal plants. In tens of thousands of cases, these constituents have quantitative data included. Each medicinal plant has a collection of names to better identify the plant.

• � Did you know that these plant products contain caffeine: blue cohosh, cacao, gotu kola, kombucha, lemon flowers, and orange buds. You will find exact information on the content of minerals, vitamins, flavonoids, and thousands of other constituents in Medicinal Plant Constituents.
• � Doctors will find this reference invaluable for finding the constituents of medicinal plants that their patients may be using. Schools and Universities will find it a valuable text to introduce the student to medicinal plant phytochemicals. Libraries and researchers will find unique knowledge listed here. Pharmacists will find information relating to medicinal plant interactions with prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical companies can use it for research and to screen test subjects. Naturally, herbalists will find this information invaluable.
• � Increase your understanding of medicinal plant chemicals and enjoy the broad scope of information gathered together into one concise electronic volume.
• � This book has a companion volume called the Constituents of Medicinal Plants. This companion volume lists over 3000 medicinal plant constituents, together with definitions, therapeutic actions and quantitative information.
• � In this electronic book, you may use the find feature (an icon like binoculars) to quickly go to any word or phrase.