Healing Herbs The Essential Guide

Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. Consumer health quick reference of more than 210 herbs, presented in chart form. Each entry includes alternative names biological names, parts used for medicinal purposes, effects, chemical ingredients, usage, warnings and precautions, toxicity and overdose, adverse reactions and side effects, interactions with other substances, and more. Softcover.

H. Winter Griffith, M.D., received his medical degree from Emory University in 1953 and spent more than 20 years in private practice. At Florida State University, he estabilshed a basic medical science program and also directed the family practice residency program at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. After moving to the Southwest, he became associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He devoted most of his time to writing medical-information books for general readers.