Herb Topiaries

Herb Topiaries Review

In this delightfully illustrated little book, veteran gardener Sally Gallo spells out the basics of topiaries, those cunningly-shaped plants that add grace to interiors and gardens alike. You'll find the history, lore, and culture of a dozen favorite herbs that are suitable for this venerable craft.

Ancient Medical Technology: From Herbs to Scalpels (Technology in Ancient Cultures)

Ancient Medical Technology: From Herbs to Scalpels (Technology in Ancient Cultures) Review

Did you know . . . Doctors in ancient Peru performed brain surgery? Ancient Greek doctors ran medical schools? The ancient Indians knew how to protect people from smallpox? Medical technology is as old as human society itself. The first humans on Earth used simple healing techniques. They developed ways to set broken bones. They learned which plants were good for treating colds, headaches, and stomachaches. Over the centuries, ancient peoples learned more about medicine. The ancient Indians performed plastic surgery. The ancient Romans operated on people's eyes. People in many ancient cultures wrote medical textbooks. What kinds of tools and techniques did ancient doctors use? Which of their remedies worked and which ones didn't? And how did ancient medicine set the stage for our own modern medical technology? Learn more in Ancient Medical Technology.

Cooking With Fresh Herbs (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)

Cooking With Fresh Herbs (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks) Review

Identify 18 of the most common fresh herbs used in today's cooking and learn how to use them. Over 100 recipes feature fresh herbs prominently. Seeking a description of the flavor, color, folklore and suggested foods that each herb complements? This book is your resource. It's perfect for those with proliferating gardens or anyone wishing to add fresh, lively flavor to meals.

The Complete Guide to Vitamins, Herbs, and Supplements: The Holistic Path to Good Health

The Complete Guide to Vitamins, Herbs, and Supplements: The Holistic Path to Good Health Review

The Natural Way to Wellness

Find essential information on hundreds of vitamins, herbs, and supplements --

What will VITAMIN E help cure and how much should I take?

Vitamin E can help prevent heart disease and treat acne. Adults should take 100 to 400 IU of natural vitamin E daily.

Find vitamin, herb, and supplement treatments for hundreds of conditions!

Experiencing migraines? See MAGNESIUM:

There is considerable evidence that low magnesium levels trigger both migraine and tension headaches. Take 250 to 400 milligrams three times daily.

Learn about possible interactions with your prescription drugs!

Taking ST. JOHN'S WORT for depression?

It may interfere with amphetamines, diet pills, nasal decongestants, or allergy medications, causing nausea or high blood pressure.

Here is your comprehensive, portable, one-step guide to all over-thecounter vitamins, herbs, and supplements currently available -- an easy-to-use alphabetical listing that includes valuable information on the most effective forms of each supplement, the nutrient's food source and proper dosage, as well as signs of deficiency, safe use, and possible side effects.

Herbs of the Earth: A Self-Teaching Guide to Healing Remedies

Herbs of the Earth: A Self-Teaching Guide to Healing Remedies Review

This book has been described as the herbalist's bible. For the beginner, it's an outstanding introduction to the subject. For those who are already knowledgeable, it is a ready reference and thorough review. To challenge the serious student, it lists questions at the end of each chapter: "What family of herbs, useful at other times, should not be used by pregnant women?"Mary Carse wrote the book for use in her own classes, over more than 25 years of teaching students. She constantly revised and honed the book, leading up to its publication for the general reader.There are a great many herbals. This one deserves to be on the bookshelf of everybody who has a serious interest in the subject.

Healing Herb Rapid Reference

Healing Herb Rapid Reference Review

Here is an herbal reference guide for holistic health care professionals and informed consumers alike. It is designed to enable on-the-spot choices of herbs which are likely to facilitate healing based on individual characteristics, or "keynotes."

Written by an ethnobotanist and clinical practioner of herbalism, it was born out of an appreciation for the work of naturally oriented physicians of the 19th and 20th centuries _ as well as the distilled practical wisdom of grandmothers, woman elders, and North and South American shamans. Most importantly, it represents the author’s own “peak” experiences during travels taken expressly for the purpose of studying and harvesting herbs in their native habitats

Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers

Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers Review

Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers Feature

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A fun, fascinating, and fact-filled (but not factor-filled) collection of trivia related to numbers 1 through 100.

What does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also the year the first Super Bowl was held and in which Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed. But maybe the year 1967 isn’t the first thing that comes to your mind. Maybe when you think about the number 67, you think of the . . .

• Age of George Washington at the time of his death, on December 14, 1799.
• Atomic number of the chemical element holmium, symbol Ho.
• Number of counties in each of the states of Alabama, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
• Most doubles hit in a season in Major League Baseball history (Earl Webb, Boston Red Sox, 1931).
• Number worn by partners Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin in the dance marathon scene in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• Estimate number of miles, in millions, from Venus to the sun

In Numberpedia, author Herb Reich examines all of the random, seemingly unrelated trivia related to numbers 1 to 100 in painstaking detail, revealing lore, myths, and every bizarre factoid you’d ever want to know about those numbers—except, of course, those concerning math.