The Earthwise Herbal Repertory

by Matthew Wood

  Bibliography

  This section usually goes at the back of a book, but as I learned from David Ryan, it is best to put it at the front when constructing a repertory because there is less interference with the body of the text in which we want to look up medicines.

  Azar, Henry. The Sage of Seville. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008.

  Barnes, Broda. Hypothyroidism. New York: Harper, 1976.

  Bartram, Thomas. The Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine. Christchurch, UK: Grace Publishing, 1995.

  Bastide, M. “Basic Research on High Dilution Effects.” In High Dilution Effects on Cells and Integrated Systems. Edited by Paolo Marotta and Cloe Taddei-Ferretti. River Edge, NJ and London: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 1998.

  Bhattacharya, A. K. Eclectic Medicine, or Simple Healing Methods. New Delhi: Firma KLM Limited Private, 1985.

  Bigfoot, Peter and Angelique Zelle. Venomous Bites and Stings: Natural Remedies. Roosevelt, AZ: Reevis Mountain School, 1993.

  Boenninghausen, C.M. Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book: The Principles and Practicability. Edited by T.F. Allen. New Delhi: B. Jain, 2007.

  Boericke, William. Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica. Philadelphia: F. E. Boericke, 1927.

  Boger, Cyril. A Synoptic Key to Materia Medica. Parkersburg, WV: Privately published, 1931.

  British Herbal Medicine Association. A Guide to Traditional Herbal Medicines. Bournemouth, Dorset: BHMA Publishing, Ltd., 2003.

  ________. British Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1983. Bournemouth: BHMA Publishing, Ltd., 1999.

  Bruton-Seal, Julie and Matthew Seal. The Herbalist’s Bible: John Parkinson’s Lost Class Rediscovered. Ludlow: Merlin Unwin, 2014.

  Buhner, Stephen Harrod. The Secret Teachings of Plants. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2004.

  Bunce, Larkin, Caroline Gagnon, Michael Tierra, Matthew Wood, Cathy Skipper, Robin Rose Bennett, Michael Vertolli, and Jessica Aveni. “Herbs For Depression: Eight Herbalists Share Strategies,” posted December 2, 2013 by Melanie Pulla, www.herbgeek.com/herbs-for-depression-eight-herbalists-share-strategies/

  Burnett, J. Compton. The Diseases of the Liver. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel, 1895.

  Chevallier, Andrew. Herbal Medicine for the Menopause. Rochester, UK: Amberwood Publishing Ltd., 2001.

  Christopher, John R. School of Natural Healing. 25th anniversary edition. London: Atlantic Books, 1991.

  Clarke, John Henry. A Clinical Repertory to the Dictionary of Materia Medica: Together with Repertories of Causation, Temperaments, Clinical Relationships, Natural Relationships. London: Homoeopathic Publishing Company, 1904.

  ________. The Prescriber: a Dictionary of the New Therapeutics. 9th ed. (1st ed. 1886.) Saffron Walden, UK: The C.W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1992.

  Cook, William. The Physiomedical Dispensatory. Cincinnati: Privately published, 1869.

  Crellin, John K. and Jane Philpott. Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 1990.

  Cowan, Eliot. Plant Spirit Medicine. Columbus, NC: Granite Publishing LLC, 1995.

  Culpeper, Nicholas. The Complete Herbal and English Physician. 300-year anniversary edition. Birmingham: The Kynoch Press, 1953.

  Dash, George E. “How Remedies Act on the Skin.” The Eclectic Medical Gleaner 4, no. 1 (1908).

  D’Castro, J. Benedict. Logic of Repertories. Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, Pvt., Ltd., 2004.

  Ellingwood, Finley. The American Materia Medica: Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, Reprint. (1st ed. 1919.) Sandy, OR: Eclectic Publications, 1995.

  Fernie, William. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure. 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, 1897.

  Foreman, Richard and James W. Mahoney. The Cherokee Physician. Asheville, NC: Edney & Dedman, 1849. http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/foreman/menu.html

  French, J.M. “Chelidonium Majus.” The Eclectic Medical Gleaner 4, no. 1 (1908).

  Green, James. The Male Herbal: The Definitive Health Care Book for Men and Boys. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007.

  Grieve, Maude. A Modern Herbal. Online edition. (1st ed. 1931.) Available at http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html.

  Griggs, Barbara. Green Pharmacy. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1997.

  Gümbel, Dietrich. Principles of Holistic Therapy with Herbal Essences. Heidelberg: Haag, 1986.

  Hahnemann, Samuel. Organon of the Medical Art. 6th edition. Edited by Wenda Brewster O’Reilly. Redmond, WA: Birdcage Books, 1996.

  Hale, Edwin M. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies. Philadelphia: F.E. Boericke, 1885. Available at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Hale%2C%20Edwin%20M.%20(Edwin%20Moses)%2C%201829-1899

  Hall, Dorothy. Dorothy Hall’s Herbal Medicine. Melbourne: Lothian, 1998.

  Handley, Rima. A Homeopathic Love Story: The Story of Samuel and Mélanie Hahnemann. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1990.

  Harper-Shove, F. Prescriber and Clinical Repertory of Medicinal Herbs. Bradford: Health Science Press, 1938.

  Hershoff, Asa and Andrea Rotelli. Herbal Remedies: A Quick and Easy Guide to Common Disorders and Their Herbal Treatments. New York: Avery, 2001.

  Hoffman, David. The New Holistic Herbal. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1991.

  Hool, Richard Lawrence. Common Plants and Their Uses in Medicine. Lancashire, UK: Lancashire Branch of the NAMH, 1922.

  Howard, Horton. An Improved System of Medicine. Columbus, OH: Privately published, 1832.

  Huang Huang. Ten Key Formula Families in Chinese Medicine. Translated by Michael Max. Seattle: Eastland Press, 1994.

  Hueneke, Pati Solva. Living in the Golden Light: Healing with the Golden Angels of the Five Elements and the Gold Light Plant Essences. Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press, 2010.

  Jones, Eli G. Cancer: Its Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers Ltd., 2004.

  Jones, Stacy. The Medical Genius: A Guide to the Cure. Philadelphia: John C. Winston & Co., 1894. Available at https://archive.org/details/medicalgeniusag01jonegoog

  Kenner, Dan and Yves Requena. Botanical Medicine: A European Professional Perspective. Brookline, MA: Paradigm Publications, 2001.

  Kent, Janet. Ease Your Mind: Herbs for Mental Health. Asheville, NC: Medicine County Herbs, 2014.

  Kingsbury, John M. Deadly Harvest: A Guide to Common Poisonous Plants. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

  Kress, Henrietta. Practical Herbs. Helsinki: Privately published, 2011.

  Kuhn, Merrily A. and David Winston. Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach. 2nd edition. Philadelphia, etc.: Wolters/Kluwer, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2008.

  Light, Phyllis. Dysfunctions of the Endocrine System: Causes, Symptoms, and Remedies: A Practical Guide. Arab, AL: Self-published, 2001.

  Little, David. The Homoeopathic Compendium. 6 vols. Privately published, 2015. www.similimum.com

  Marinelli, Ralph et al. “The Heart is not a Pump: A Refutation of the Pressure Propulsion Premise of Heart Function.” Frontier Perspectives 5, no. 1 (1995). Accessed April 3, 2016. www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli/

  Massinger, O. L. “Echinacea Angustifolium.” The Eclectic Medical Gleaner 4, no. 1 (1908).

  Mills, Simon. Out of the Earth: The Essential Book of Herbal Medicine. London, New York, Toronto, Sidney, Auckland: Penguin Books, Viking Arkana, 1991.

  Moore, Les. Classical Formulas in the Western Herbal Tradition. Shortsville, NY: Self-published, 2002.

  Moore, Michael. Herbal Repertory in Clinical Practice: A Manual of Differential Therapeutics for the Health Care Professional. 3rd ed. Albuquerque, AZ: Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, 1994.

  Murphy, Robin. Case Analysis and Prescribing Techniques. New Delhi: B. Jain, 2006.

  Occom, Samson. “Herbal remedies and letter fragment.” https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/diplomatic/754900-2-diplomatic.html

  Orr
, Althea Northage. “The Use of Nervines and Other Herbs in the Treatment of Mental and Nervous Disorders.” http://www.transformationaltechniques.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Use-of-Nervines-and-Other-Herbs-in-the-Treatment-of-Mental-and-Nervous-Disorders.pdf)

  Parton, Frank. Herbal. London: Self-published, 1931.

  ________. Miracle Workers From the Fields and Hedgerows, A New Herbal with Remedial Diet. London: The C. W. Daniel Company, 1935.

  Phatak, S.R. A Concise Repertory of Homeopathic Medicines. New Delhi: B. Jain, 2004.

  Pischinger, Alfred. The Extracellular Matrix and Ground Regulation: Basis for a Holistic Biological Medicine. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007.

  Pollack, Gerald H. “The Fourth Phase of Water: Implications for Energy and Health.” Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts 16, no. 4 (2015).

  Porcher, Francis Peyre. Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural, being also a medical botany of the Confederate States, with practical information on the properties of the trees, plants, and shrubs. Originally published 1863. Delhi: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., 2013.

  Powell, Eric. The Natural Home Physician. Bradford: Health Science Press, 1962.

  Priest, A.W. and L.R. Priest. Herbal Medication: A Clinical and Dispensary Handbook. London: L. M. Fowler and Co., Ltd., 1983, reprinted 2001.

  Rafinesque, Constantine. Manual of the medical botany of the United States, containing description of fifty-two medicinal plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c. Reprinted from 1828–1830 edition. Delhi: ReInk Books, 2014.

  Rippe, Olaf and Margret Madejsky. Die Kräuterkunde des Paracelsus. 2nd ed. Baden and Munich: AT Verlag, 2013.

  Salmon, William. Botanologia, or The English Herbal. London, Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710.

  Schulze, Richard. Dr. Schulze’s 2011 Herbal Product Catalog. Marina del Rey, CA: American Botanical Pharmacy, 2011.

  Scudder, John M. Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 12th ed. Cincinnati: The Scudder Brothers Company, Publishers, 1898.

  Sedlacek, Trilby. Materia Medica for Women’s Active Sex Life. Handout. Cedar Rapids: GreenAngelsHerbs.com, 2015.

  Selye, Hans. The Stress of Life. Revised edition. New York, etc.: The MacGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1976.

  Sherman, John. The Complete Botanical Prescriber. 3rd ed. Privately published, 1993.

  Simeon, Albert T. Man’s Presumptuous Brain: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Psychosomatic Diseases. New York: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1962.

  Thomson, Samuel. New Guide to Health: or Botanic Family Physician … To Which is Prefaced, A Narrative of the Life and Medical Discoveries of the Author. Boston: Privately published, 1835.

  Thurston, Dr. Joseph M. The Philosophy of Physiomedicalism. Richmond, IN: Nicholson Printing and Mfg. Co., 1900.

  Tierra, Michael. Planetary Herbology. Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Press, 1992.

  ________. The Way of Herbs. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.

  Tilke, Samuel Westcott. Practical reflections on the nature and treatment of disease: Founded upon sixteen years’ experience in the cure of gout, rheumatism, scrofula, fever, … with suggestions for its improvement. 5th edition. London: Self-published, 1844.

  Treben, Maria. Health From God’s Garden. Wellingborough, UK and Rochester, VT: Thorson’s, 1987.

  ________. Health Through God’s Pharmacy: Advice and Proven Cures with Medicinal Herbs. 29th edition. Steyr, Austria: Ennsthaler Publishing, 2003.

  Turner, William. A New Herball. Facsimile of the first editions of 1551, 1562, and 1568. Edited by George T.L. Chapman

  Vogel, Virgil. American Indian Medicine. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

  Waterhouse, E. R. “Tongue Diagnosis.” The Eclectic Medical Gleaner 4, no. 1 (1908).

  Watson, Ian. A Guide to the Methodologies of Homeopathy. Cornwall, UK: Cutting Edge Publications, 2004.

  Weed, Susun. Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way. Woodstock, NY: Self-published, 1996.

  ________. Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way. Woodstock, NY: Self-published, 2011.

  ________. New Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way—Alternative Approaches for Women 30–90. Woodstock, NY: Self-published, 2002.

  ________. Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year. Woodstock, NY: Self-published, 1996.

  Weiss, Rudolf Fritz. Weiss’s Herbal Medicine. New York: Thieme, 1994.

  Winston, David. The Energetics of Herbs: “The 10 Tastes.” American Herbalists Guild Conference Proceedings, 2006.

  ________. Herbal Therapeutics: Specific Indications for Herbs and Herbal Formulas. 10th ed. Broadway, NJ: Herbal Therapeutics Research Library, 2013.

  ________. The 10 Tastes Pamphlet: The Energetics of Herbs. Broadway, NJ: Self-published, 1999.

  Winston, David and Steven Maimes. Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2007.

  Winston, Julian. “The Boenninghausen Repertory: Therapeutic Pocket Book Method.” In The American Homeopath 7 (2001). http:/minimum.com, accessed January 17, 2016.

  Wood, Matthew. The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2008.

  ________. The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to the New World Medicinal Plants. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2010.

  ________. The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2004.

  ________. Vitalism: The History of Homeopathy, Herbalism, and Flower Essences. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2000.

  Wood, Matthew, Francis Benaldo Begnoche, and Phyllis Light. Traditional Western Herbalism, Pulse Evaluation: A Conversation. N.p.: Lulu Publishing Services, 2015.

  Indications from Oral Sources

  When a name is not listed in the bibliography, the reader may presume that I am quoting (or closely paraphrasing from) a conversation I had with an herbalist or information from a class I attended. Direct quotations from books, printed matter, or the Internet are sourced, while oral sources are not.

  In this regard, I would like to thank and acknowledge the following herbal practitioners for their verbal contributions to this repertory: 7Song, Tim Bernard, Rachel Bowen, Sondra Boyd, Rico Cech, Glenda Croft, Tis Mal Crow, Brent Davis, Christine Dennis, Sean Donahue, Bernadette Dowling, Jane Doyle, Kim Dudley, Tim Dymond, Jolie Elan, Erica Fargione, Libby Fenton, Pam Fischer, Margi Flint, Wendy Fogg, Kate Gilday, Christopher Hobbs, Mark Jensen, Paula Jensen, Keewaydinoquay, Bonnie Krekow, Judy Leiblen, William LeSassier, Phyllis Light, Jim MacDonald, Darrel Martin, Mary Pat Palmer, Bianca Patel, Erin Piorier, Sajah Popham, Paul Red Elk, John Redden, Robert Rogers, Keva Rose, Tony Seifert, Nicholas Schnell, Jill Stansbury, Brandt Stickley, Jennifer Tucker, Nancy Welliver, Lise Wolff, Susan Yerigan, and others. If I have forgotten someone, I apologize—and please let me know.

  I am also indebted to David Ryan for helping me understand the definition and logic of a homeopathic repertory, and for helping me design the present herbal repertory for the ease of use by the reader. We thank Roger Van Zant for checking over our ideas on the homeopathic repertory.

  PART II: THE REPERTORY

  1. List of Herbs

  Variations in scientific names of plants have always occurred but are especially frequent today, when research on plant genomes are leading to new discoveries about the true relationships between plants. This can be expected to continue after the publication of this book. I was educated in botany forty-five years ago and in herbalism over the succeeding decades, and like many older herbalists I am used to “the old names” and not always current on new names. So, I have kept a considerable number of the old names that I am familiar with in place. This will be inconvenient to manufacturers of plant products, who now have to have the most recent name on their labels, according to regulations set in place by the FDA in the last several years. Unfortunately, homeopathy, which is also regulated by the FDA, and also us
es many of the old names that herbalists always used, is allowed to use these names because they are established in the U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopeia, which is official with the FDA. Therefore, the relationships between herbs and homeopathic remedies, and between modern herbs and herbs as named in the old books will be somewhat confusing. New names will undoubtedly appear after the publication of this book and this is not something I am going to try to correct, if there should be a future edition. Indeed, I have used some names that have already been changed in the last decade because I am so familiar with them. Others are subject to dispute and it is not always clear to an outsider what is the accepted botanical name—it may not yet be agreed upon. I have attempted to include all the major new and old names in the following list, but some are probably missing.

  Common names are also often peculiar to herbalists, as they are to farmers, florists, grocers, horticulturalists, and the writers of plant guides on the internet or on paper. The shopper says “celery,” while the herbalist says “celery seed” because we are not thinking of the vegetable. We don’t want the listener to think we are referring to the vegetable. History also enters into nomenclature. The horticulturist may say “queen of the meadow” while we say “gravel root,” because of the way gravel sticks between the roots and also because it treats gravel. We might also say “Joe Pye weed” in remembrance of the Indian medicine man who first introduced this herb into the consciousness of white and black American herbalists. Southern herbalists might use “queen of the meadow” as the common expression in their area, while Northern herbalists avoid the term since for them it refers to two completely different medicinal plants, Eupatorium purpureum and Filipendula ulmaria. Common names are legion; I have kept to the ones I would use in conversation with herbalists—but correct form is what you use, as long as others understand you.