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Book Review: Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal, A Guide to Living Life with Energy, Health, and Vitality

Savvy Vegetarian News

Vol. 2, Issue 1, January 2004

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Family Herbal offers a strong focus on healthy living - eating well, exercizing, sleeping soundly, and using herbs every day. Rosemary Gladstar's comprehensive and holistic approach to well-being promotes energy, health and vitality at every stage of life. Whether you need to boost your immune system, soothe your tired eyes, moisturize your skin, or go to sleep easily, Gladstar's simple, time tested, effective herbal remedies work. Her herbal apothecary is an A - Z guide to herbs, their characteristics and uses, along with safety precautions, dosage information, and when to seek medical advice.

This indipensible herbal reference is a compilation of all the slim volumes on herbal healing published over the years by Rosemary Gladstar. By the way, this isn't one of those books you can pick up used on ebay (maybe rarely). People who own this book don't let it out of their sight! It's worth every penny of the full, new, retail price - in fact, it's one of the best bargains around. Put it on your must-have list - I promise you'll love it and use it every day.

Rosemary Gladstar has dedicated her life to the pursuit and practice of herbal knowledge, which she gives generously to others. In her own words, "What I know about herbs is shared information, passed down to me sometimes from people I know well and often from people who lived hundreds of years before me. It is our collective treasury, our birthright, and it is meant to be freely shared"

After you read your copy of the Family Herbal, you'll naturally want to stock up on supplies to make your own herbal potions. Two of the best places to find them online are:
Frontier Herbs
Mountain Rose Herbs

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Moo Tea: Nursing Moms Herbal Infusion
Pregnancy Tonic Herbal Infusion

Judy Kingsbury
Savvy Vegetarian

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