From Matthew Wood, who has almost forty years of clinical experience. The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants and encompasses all the major, and many of the secondary, herbs of traditional and modern Western herbalism. 

Wood describes characteristic symptoms and conditions in which each plant has proved useful in the clinic, often illustrated with appropriate case histories. He also takes a historical view based on his extensive study of ancient and traditional herbal literature. 

Written in an easy, engaging style that offers insight into how plants work, what areas of the body they work in, how they have been used in the past–all while providing readers with pharmacological information that indicates how plants hang together to produce a portrait as a whole entity. Ideal for beginners or advanced practitioners.