Medicinal Plants: Healthy Through the Power of Nature
About this ebook
Natural remedies, especially medicinal plants, have long been the only remedy for doctors and pharmacists. Medicinal plants also served as important raw materials for the production of medicines.
Determine, collect and dry medicinal plants
Medicinal plants can be found almost everywhere in nature - on meadows, in the forest, on the wayside. This book explains how to collect medicinal plants and determine which plant parts to use, whether it’s the flowers, leaves, fruits, roots or bark.
Herbal preparations - medicinal plants can be used in a variety of ways
The simplest usage form of medicinal herbs is tea. However, there is a far greater range of uses of medicinal plants. Known medicinal herb preparations include e.g. tinctures, ointments, creams; they can also be used in baths. The book provides an overview of the preparation and use of the individual dosage forms.
About the author
Dr. Angela Fetzner, born in Bad Kissingen, Germany, ibid grew up. Working from 1996 to present as pharmacist in public and hospital pharmacies all over Germany, Switzerland and more. Additional seminar activities in Germany and EU-countries. Study of Pharmacy at the Julius-Maximilian university in Wuerzburg, then approval as a pharmacist. Working 2 years in a public pharmacie in northern germany. Postgraduate studies in the history of pharmacy at the Philipps university in Marburg, degree as pharmacy historian. There also doctorate. As a pharmacist in practice - with the appropriate specialist knowledge through pharmacy studies and numerous training courses - it is her concern, to make the people complex medical issues understandable. Privately, she spends every free minute in nature - especially on long walks with her two donkeys she saved from the slaughterhouse, Achiel and Harrie.
