Books Principles & Practice of Phytotherapy

The first edition of Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy published in 2000 was the first authoritative, comprehensive modern textbook for western herbal medicine, covering all the major aspects of the field from fundamental concepts, traditional use and scientific research through to safety, effective dosage and clinical applications.  It became the central textbook for students of phytotherapy in many English-speaking countries and was widely used by natural therapists, researchers, and professionals in the manufacturing industry from Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand, Europe and beyond. The long-awaited and award-winning, second edition brings a complete revision of the material in the first, with 50 fully up-to-date evidence-based monographs including 7 new herbs. Written by herbal practitioners with active experience in clinical practice, education, manufacturing and research, the textbook is both practical and evidence based. In addition, the all-important therapeutics Chapters 8 and 9 have been comprehensively updated and extended to include many new insights into the herbal management of approximately 100 modern disease states. Additional information includes extensive coverage of vital new topics such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, acne, fibromyalgia, inflammatory bowel disease, insulin resistance, migraine headaches and prostate cancer, to name a few. However, the focus on the individual case and the specific needs of the patient in terms of the herbs best suited to them is emphasised in the material. In addition, the authors have added wide-ranging discussions of the contribution of phytotherapy to important modern health issues, including healthy ageing, gut dysbiosis, cognition enhancement and management of andropause. Above all, Bone and Mills have been able to distil their more than 60 years of combined experience in herbal practice, research, education, writing, regulation, manufacture and quality assurance to arrive at the most accurate, balanced, evidence based and informed treatise on this topic.