Put nature's pharmacy to work in just minutes right on your desktop. Have quick and easy access to over 2,000 remedies (herbs and herb formulas) and 30 therapeutic diets for 450 common ailments. Herbal medicine is safe and effective when used properly. Herbal medicine has been the primary source of drugs and therapeutic remedies for over 3,000 years and many modern pharmaceuticals are still derived from herbs. Enjoy reading gems on 250 herbs from over 50 of the greatest herbalists of all time ~ Dioscorides of ancient Rome, physician to Nero's army; Gerard, Parkinson and Culpeper, the great Renaissance herbalists and many modern herbalists and physicians from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. All this vast herbal information is organized and made accessible by internationally-respected herbalist/author Christopher Hobbs.