Dr Stansbury has given us an amazing resource in her Herbal Formularies series! My only complaint is I wish these had been available many years ago! lol.

I like that the book is strictly about herbal medicine, and doesn't involve any spiritual, new age stories. I would have loved to read more about the negative sides also. I ended up buying the physical copy, because the
version provided by Netgalley came with the writing too small to be able to focus and read more than a page or two .

As the title suggests, Herbal Formularies for Health Professsionals focuses on combinations of herbs and other synergistic materials to support whole-body wellness. One of a series of five, this book focuses on circulation and respiration.

There's no fluff in this book, zero woo-woo, as well as precise, specific and educational. As I worked through the first section, which focuses on how to diagnose medical conditions including specific questions to ask, I wanted to rediscover my herbalism background. I spent a summer at an ashram working with an herbalist to learn the specifics of certain herbs, their cultural roots, and how they've supported shamans and healers in the past up to today. This book would've been a useful reference for me then, and I suspect it will move into textbook territory - or, it should.

One thing to note that I loved: the formulas contained in Herbal Forumlaries for Health Professionals are meant as recipes. Meaning, a good cook will likely alter a recipe based on their technical knowledge and how they feel that day - and an herbalist should do the same using this book as its guide.

My only complaint in the book is that the review copy I received (thank you NetGalley and publisher) had extremely small writing. I had to increase the text size by more than 50% to read it comfortably on my computer.

I will likely buy this book, and the other four, as reference sources. I would recommend the Herbal Formulaties for Health Professionals series to any healthcare professional that uses or wants to use herbs in their practice.

I really liked this book. In fact I will for sure buy a copy. It is concise and well written. I love how she uses the triangle approach to making formulas. Well done!

This is the second of a five volume set of herbal formularies, this one focusing on respiration and circulation. It starts with an introduction about honoring traditional knowledge, remembering that modern pharmacology came out of folkloric herbal medicine and most medicines are still refined from the same plants our ancestors used in raw form.

The book is well presented and reads like a serious book on medicine rather than the sort of airy-fairy new age stuff you often see about herbalism. There are three chapters within 184 pages of fascinating information, partially laid out in encyclopedic form. The first chapter is The Art of Herbal Formulation. This covers diagnosis, symptoms, and basically how to determine what herbs to use for a problem.

There is preventative advice like how to support vitality instead of opposing disease. The second chapter goes into creating formulas for the circulatory system. This includes what nutrients will support various biological processes and parts of the system. Some of the information like using cardio glycosides makes me think that a doctor's advice would be needed rather than self-treatment, but as a reference volume for someone in the medical profession it would be brilliant.

The drawing of various herbal plants add visual interest and are very well done. A lot of the herbal names are full Latin rather than common names, though the common names are included in the encyclopedic lists, so this is a book for serious study. Even if it gives me mental images of shelves lined with arcane bottles and a wisened old man with a long beard as apothocary!

The third chapter is on formulas for respiratory conditions. Like the second chapter, it explains the processes and follows with an encyclopedic list of relevant herbs. There is an appendix to compare scientific names to common names followed by another one to translate the common names to the Latin, then a glossary of therapeutic terms.

Unlike a lot of reference books, I think this one would be worth reading all through to familiarize the reader with the material, after which it would sit well on the shelf of a medical reference library. Someone with a formal medical education would probably already be familiar with most of the terms, but I found it all rather interesting.

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This book is a very good reference for homeopathic medicine. The book is well documented and contains very good illustrations. A very good introduction book.

This book is a professional overview of herbal preparations for a variety of pulmonary and cardiac issues. There are preparations for hundreds of very specific conditions. These are well described. On the other hand, the individual herbs have a paragraph or two devoted to them and it is difficult to tell the reason why herbs are chosen. For example, you might learn that a herb is a vasodilator but the mechanism (e.g. increasing nitric oxide) is unlikely to be included nor is it likely to included the specific herbal component (e.g. alkaloid) does the action. This isn't too big a deal, I think I didn't realize the difference between a formulary and a herbal. I suppose formularies describe herbal formulas and leave the herbal details to the herbals.

This book doesn't talk much about the negatives of herbs. While it does recommend against usage of Belladona other herbs like mistletoe (which I've heard is toxic) and berberine aren't well discussed. While berberine could help with cardiac problems and perhaps should be used it seems irresponsible to recommend it without mentioning that it is a strong antibiotic and could disrupt flora.

All in all a good book, but not one that will take the place of a good herbal.

This is an excellent household Natural Medicine remedy book using common herbs. Anyone who grows herbs or wants to use herbs for Natural healing, should have this book available. I love this book.

I am thrilled to read a book about natural medicine from someone who has done research and is informed on the subject. As a RN, I would like to see doctors, NP's and PA's among others incorporate natural remedies into a patient's medication regimen. I learned a new word and definition as well. It is Ethnobotany which is the study of the relationship between cultures and plants . This book explains what to use, how to use it and what not to use as well. The formulas are explained in great detail. I am from a family whose mother always used the herbs she grew and we seldom went to the doctor. Thank you, Dr Stansbury for a book for medical professionals that is long overdue. I recieved this book from Net Galley and Chelsea Green Publishing for an honest review and no compensation.