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Traditional Sources: Western Herbal Medicine

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Western Herbal Medicine

The Western Herbal Medicine collection is a representation of seminal and origin texts with importance to contemporary herbal medicine practice. Materia Medica titles typically include an alphabetical list of substances used in medicinal approaches. The dispensatories will include entries on medicinal preparations and formulae. 

 

Most popular western herbal eBooks

American materia  medica

Henriette's Herbal Homepage

The complete herbal

The dispensatory of the United States of America (20th ed.).

A modern herbal

Köhler's Medicinal Plants in true-to-nature illustrations with brief explanatory texts

 

King's American dispensatory (18th ed., 3rd rev.).

Culpepper, N. (1789). Culpepper's English physician and complete herbal. British Directory Office. https://archive.org/details/culpeppersenglis00culp/page/n3/mode/2up

Culpepper's English physician and complete herbal.

The working-man's model family botanic guide (23rd ed. Part 1).

Thomson, A. T.,   & Garrod. A. B. (1852). The London dispensatory: A practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics: Illustrated with many useful tables, and woodcuts of the pharmaceutical apparatus (11th ed.). Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. https://archive.org/details/londondispensato00thom

The London dispensatory

Bache, F. & Wood, G. B. (1868).  The dispensatory of the United States of America (12th ed.). Lippincott. https://archive.org/details/dispensatoryofun00bachuoft

The dispensatory of the United States of America (12th ed.).

Western Herbal eBooks Reference List