The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook A Home

This guide to the kitchen pharmacy discusses the entire process of preparing herbal medicines at home, from methods of growing, gathering, and drying herbs to different ways of extracting their vital essences and making healing balms, lotions, and more.

JAMES GREEN is the founder of Simplers Botanical Company and is a professional founding member of the American Herbalists Guild and United Plant Savers. He conducts workshops on male health and herbal medicine making throughout the United States and Canada. He lives in Ocean Beach, California.

Prologue: A Word Before the Medicine Show

9

(4)

A Field Trip

13

(8)

A Few Herbs Are All You Need

21

(20)

Gardening and Harvesting, Drying, Garbling, and Storing

41

(24)

Kitchen Pharmacy Equipment

65

(8)

The Extraction Process

73

(6)

Solvents

79

(20)

Forms of Herbal Medicine

99

(4)

Infusion

103

(8)

Decoction

111

(6)

Distillation of Hydrosols

117

(6)

Flower Essences

123

(22)

Tincturing by Maceration

145

(12)

Tincturing by Percolation

157

(12)

Wine Infusion

169

(8)

Vinegar Infusion

177

(8)

Glycerin Infusion

185

(8)

Oil Infusion

193

(8)

Ointment, Salves, & Balms

201

(8)

Lotions & Creams

209

(10)

Suppositories and Boluses

219

(10)

Herb Jellos

229

(4)

Syrups, Honeys, Oxymels, and Electuaries

233

(16)

Baths for Water Therapy

249

(26)

Poultices and Fomentations

275

(16)

Complementary Techniques, Terms, and Other Considerations

291

(30)

A Perspective on Medicine

321

(38)

Appendices

A---The United Plant Savers List of ``At-Risk Medicinal Plants''

338

(3)

B---Welcome to the Garden

341

(11)

C---Eight Principles of Excellent Medicine-Making

352

(2)

D---Extract Information Chart

354

(1)

E---Harvesting Information Chart

355

(1)

F---First Aid for Poisoning by Alkaloids

356

(3)

References

359

(6)

Resources

365

(6)

Index

371

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