Herbal Healing for Children

Herbalist Demetria Clark shares her wealth of knowledge and experience to provide a practical guide for dealing with common childhood health issues. Both parents and health practitioners alike will find immense value in these time-tested, safe herbal therapies. Easy-to-use, the comprehensive manual offers a treasury of practical recipes for reliable, age-appropriate remedies; insight into why medicinal herbs are effective, and which conditions they treat; advice on gathering, preserving, and storing fresh herbs; and traditional techniques for making herbal teas, infusions, and salves. An understanding about the underlying cause of the imbalance is followed by recommendations for several effective herbal remedies that are known to work well. Learn what to have on hand for an herbal medicine chest and herbal first aid kit to cautions as well as guidelines for when it might be necessary to call in a health care professional.