"Butterfly Miracles with Essential Oils: Empowering Yourself" by LaRee Westover

Butterfly Miracles is a book with a hands-on approach to the use of essential oils in day to day living. It's easy-to-use format gives both the beginner and the more experienced practitioner a clear picture of the efficacy of essential oils. This second edition includes a comprehensive index, making the book even more user-friendly.

• History & Schools of Thought of Essential Oils
• Essential Oil Basic Principles & Information
• Essential Oil Quality including Understanding Tests & Standards
• Safety Guidelines
• How to Use Essential Oils
• Charts & Definitions
• Suggestions & Practical Uses of Essential Oils
• Essential Oils for Emotions
• Essential Oils by Plant Families
• Growing Cycles & Essential Oils
• Eastern Healing Philosophies of Essential Oils
• Essential Oils for Women's Health 
• All About Carrier Oils
• Single Herb Essential Oils Dictionary
• Butterfly Blend Essential Oils Dictionary

Paperback, 352 pages, English, Butterfly Expressions LLC, 2020

Earl Mindell's New Herb Bible

by Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.

The bestselling guide to herbal remedies completely revised and expanded.

Since its original publication in 1992, Earl Mindell’s Herb Bible has become the definitive guide to the world of herbal remedies. Recognized as today’s leading trend in self-care, herbs can help you heal faster, live longer, and look better. In this completely updated edition, one of the world's foremost authorities on nutrition and natural remedies demystifies the language and lore of herbs and shows you how to choose and use herbs and herbal treatments—from the traditional favorites to those on the cutting edge.

Here is new and valuable information on how herbs can treat depression and anxiety, boost energy, improve your sex life, combat aging, prevent illness, and speed healing.

Highlights include:

• 30 new “Hot Hundred” herbs
• A new section devoted specifically to anti-aging herbs
• New and completely updated information on the fastest selling herbs: St. John’s Wort, kava kava, grapeseed extract, and green tea
• Special updated chapters on “A Man’s Body” and “A Woman’s Body”

Paperback, 317 pages, English, Simon & Schuster, 2000

Healing Yourself During Pregnancy 

by Joy Gardner

Joy Gardner, author of The New Healing Yourself, offers a great text about natural remedies during pregnancy and labor. Starting with preconception (including natural ways of regulating ovulation) through all the common complaints of pregnancy, Gardner offers ways of preventing problems, as well as curing them. She recommends herbal and natural cures for problems including -swelling of hands and feet -the common cold -varicose veins -frequent urination -infections Even if you're not completely into natural remedies, this is a useful book because it explores how to cure yourself if the drug you would normally take is dangerous during pregnancy. A great primer and resource to have around.

Paperback, 210 pages, English, Crossing Press, 1987

Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary

by JJ Pursell

Using nature's natural resources, this medicinal guide from a bestselling author and board-certified naturopathic physician prioritizes holistic healing for all.

Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary is a complete, one-stop resource for herbal remedies that heal and nurture the whole family, offering safe, trusted natural remedies. Once you understand how to make these basic formulations, you can access recipes that address a range of health concerns from the common cold and headaches to insomnia and digestive issues. 

Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and beautifully packaged, Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary will become your go-to guide for sustained health and wellness.  

“This incredible, in-depth, and easy-to-access resource is a must for all of us who wish to learn more about healing ourselves through the plant world.” —Shiva Rose, actress, activist, and founder of The Local Rose 

Paperback, 288 pages, English, Timber Press, 2019

Dimensions: 7.75"x .75"x 9.25"

Naturally Healthy Babies & Children:

A Commonsense Guide to Herbal Remedies, Nutrition, and Health 

by Aviva Jill Romm

Committed to finding natural ways to care for their children, many parents seek techniques that do not require the invasive procedures and medications often associated with Western medicine. In Naturally Healthy Babies and Children midwife and herbalist Aviva Romm offers a comprehensive handbook that addresses the common health issues of children, from newborns to preadolescents.

Aviva's whole-child approach integrates herbal remedies, nutrition, hygiene, and alternative health techniques with supportive, informed parenting. From anemia to whooping cough, each entry includes herbal, dietary, and general recommendations, including tips on when to pursue professional medical care. Naturally Healthy Babies and Children is indispensable reading for families seeking safe, effective ways to practice healing techniques at home.

Paperback, 448 pages, English, Celestial Arts, 2003

"Complete Medicinal Herbal: A Practical Guide to the Healing Properties of Herbs"

by Penelope Ody

Here is a full-color guide to the healing properties of herbs, with more than 120 medicinal herbs and their therapeutic properties included. Penelope Ody’s guide is essential for natural healthy enthusiasts and herbalists.

All the parts of the plants that can be used medicinally are shown, from fresh flower petals or leaves to the root, bark, and juice. Each entry details the plant's chemical constituents, its actions, and its therapeutic applications—from exotic ma huang, used in China to treat asthma for 5,000 years, to humble cabbage, which has been effective against stomach ulcers in clinical tests. Here are more than 250 safe treatments to help alleviate common complaints and ailments:

• Aches & Pains
• Headaches and Migraines
• Infections
• Digestive Problems,
• Urinary Disorders
• Male Reproductive Problems
• And much more!

A special how-to section explains the preparation of herbal remedies. There is even a section on the historical uses of these herbs.

Paperback, 272 pages, English, Skyhorse Publishing, 2017

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

by Susun Weed

Simple, safe remedies for pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and newborns.

Now in its 24th printing. A confirmed favorite with pregnant women, midwives, childbirth educators, and new parents. Packed with clear, comforting, and superbly helpful information.

Beginning with the two months before pregnancy, herbs are enlisted to provide safe, effective birth control, or to help ensure pregnancy, even in the most difficult of situations. A special list of teratogens, including herbs to avoid before pregnancy, is included, as is a section on herbs to improve the father's fertility and reduce the risk of birth defects.

Once pregnancy has occurred, herbs are safe and beneficial allies in reducing the distress of pregnancy, including hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, morning sickness, emotional changes, anemia, muscle cramps, bladder infections, and preclampsia. Tasty recipes and clear directions make use easy and fun.

Herbs take a starring role in labor and delivery -- whether initiating labor, increasing energy, diminishing pain, or staunching postpartum bleeding -- and in postpartum care of the mother's perineum, breasts, and emotions, and the infants umbilicus, skin, scalp, digestive system, and immune system.

Humorous, tender, and detailed, this classic text is supported by illustrations, references, resource lists, glossary, and index.

Includes herbs for fertility and birth control. Foreword by Jeannine Parvati Baker.

Paperback, 171 pages, English, Ash Tree Publishing, 1996

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing 

by Michele E. Lee

African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native American, European and other healing traditions to become a full-fledged body of medicinal practices that has lasted in various forms down to the present day.

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing is the result of first-hand interviews, conversations, and apprenticeships conducted and experienced by author Michele E. Lee over several years of living and studying in the rural South and in the West Coast regions of the United States. She combines a novelist's keen ear for storytelling and dialogue and a healer's understanding of folk medicine arts into a book that makes for both pleasant, interesting reading, and serves as a permanent household healing guide.

Divided between sections on interviews of healers and their stories and a comprehensive collection of traditional African American medicines, remedies, and the many common ailments they were called upon to cure, Working The Roots is a valuable addition to African American history and American and African folk healing practices.

• Healing Narratives
• The Ailments & Medicines

Paperback, 396 pages, English, Wadastick, 2017