The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals Paperback – November 4, 2005

I have been a faithful believer and consumer of the healing products that Leslie Taylor talks about in her book since the beginnings of the internet in 1995. I love her website, rain-tree.com. Check it out if you want to know the specifics of this book. The book complements the rain-tree website 100%. As a result of her website, I learned about herbs and purchased them on websites where they were available. They are truly healing. The herbs I've used, to date, daily, or often, are chanca piedra, cat's claw, sarsaparilla, graviola, annatto, yerba mate, and jatoba. They, all, do what they claim to do as they have, all, gotten me out of many a pickle from many health issues. I, recently, gave my copy of this book to a friend who has multiple family members with many health issues, including herself. I, also, gave her some of a couple of the herbs that were relevant to her illnesses. I hope they work for her as they did for me! As for the book, I'll continue to use the rain-tree website until I get another copy of it for me. This book should be in every household.

The way the book is set up and explaining the correct way to use the information is so clear and easy to understand. I found it very informative and educational. I picked out 3 herbs to try and each has been very effective for me. I have loaned the book with the understanding they need to get their own copy as I don't wish to be without my copy. My suggestion would be if a person is doubtful make sure the herb does what you want, then try it without changing anything else and see if it works. Give the herb a fair trial such as a few weeks, see how it affects you personally. My copy is a used copy, very clean and it came quite rapidly. I was very pleased with the book and shipping.

Great for birthday gift ideas for health conscious people. Clear and entertaining

This book was recommended by a fellow healthseeker and I can' t thank him enough. I am familiar with a number of herbs used by natives in the Amazon Rainforest, but this book encompasses so much more and is in so much more detail. It's an absolute "must" for someone wanting/needing to avoid the pharmaceutical poisons out there. I'm a two-time cancer survivor and am constantly searching for "alternatives" to those poisons in order to maintain my health. This is a marvelous reference and needs to be in the hands of everyone who has similar concerns about what we're being "fed" by medical professionals. Dr Taylor also has a line of products under "Raintree Nutrition". Read this book and keep yourself informed. You may need to do a real search to find a copy in good condition at a reasonable price. However, it's worth every dollar that you spend.

I was looking for anti-cancer herbs and this book mentions several that I would not have known about otherwise. The author wrote the book after her own battle with cancer lead her to research the subject. It’s an encyclopedia of all kinds of herbs and their potential use for many ailments. I wouldn’t solely reply on just herbs to treat ailments, including cancer but certainly as an adjunct with other treatments. I’m thankful to have found this little gem.

The book came with just a stain on the cover however, it doesn't seem anyone had read it looks brand new to me. Though it gives numerous amount of herbs for each diseases I don't mind experimenting with them. I see many complaints but I suggest persons start with 3 herbs and work their way up to 7 for combinations. Record what you have combine and the measurements. Since FDA came for the author back then SHE CANNOT STEP BY STEP TELL YOU EVERYTHING. But I thank the heavens she had wrote this book to give me a lot of ideas what I can use and how as well.

Great book on Amazonian herbs. My only issue is the poor editing. The author referred several times to interleukins as immune cells. While this was contextually of little significance, it is the sort of blatant scientific error that ruins credibility and hampers the long overdue merger between mainstream sciences and traditional medicines. Herbalists who are presenting from a scientific angle should be sure that that angle is rightly represented and free of foundational errors. Modern herbalism must be built on a robust scientific foundation if it is to survive the 21st century. No practitioner wants to be fact checking every aspect of a work over doubts in the authors competency caused by a single error. That said the value of this book isn't greatly impacted by it due to the wealth of information on traditional use and overview of clinical research

This book has probably helped many lives. Here is a woman who went into the jungles and dedicated her life to find out how they cured and healed diseases. Here is the "amazon", I mean "amazing" thing (lol), We have access to these products, use them and be well. When the FDA cracked down on her and said you cannot state the curing properties of herbs and sell the herbs too, as opposed to keeping her income and selling products, she choose instead to impart all her knowledge to the world and forsake the profits from selling her own products. She felt it was more important to give away all her knowledge. A hard cover book is priceless. It is a reference book you go back to many times. And for us "baby boomers" we are apt to believe the internet could possibly go down for a while or information gets scrubbed, but you have what you need in a book. Books "not too long ago" were in fashion. Her website is rain-tree.com. Look at that first and get to the part of the herbal treatments.Best wishes,Rachelle Rover