My favorite herb books!

I love to read and collect books on herbs.  I have stacks of them and while some of the information is repetitious, most books have some area of information that is unique, others are well illustrated and may be a joy to just browse through.  So, some of my favorites:

• Anything by Susun Weed.  If my house were on fire, I would grab her books first!  Very practical, well researched and full of very easy to make tinctures and infusions. Wise Woman Herbal is a great basic and narrows the essentials down to a few main herbs for health. Her books on Breast Health and Menopause are a must have for all women.  She not only covers herbal remedies but compares them to conventional medicine and she is the best researched author I have read yet on the pros and cons to both approaches. Her approach has reduced my fears enormously in these areas.
• Common Herbs for Natural Health by Juliette de Bairacli Levy---a classic and practical.
• The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook by James Green.  Filled with easy to make recipes for creams, lotions, tinctures, infusions.  This book is a classic and a must have essential.
• The Holistic Herbal by David Hoffmann.   Another essential filled with practical recipes for home cures and great information on herbs.
• The Complete Book of Herbs by Lesley Bremness. This is a beautiful book filled with gorgeous photos but also filled with very practical information on making eatibles, ointments and also paper and craft uses.  One of my all time favorites.
• The Enclyclopedia of Medicinal Plants by Andrew Chevallier.  Beautiful photos along with complete information on hundreds of herbs worldwide and also their chemical makeup. 
• The Cherokee Herbal by J.T. Garrett.  Great book on Native American uses for North American plants.  It covers the plants and also how the Native Americans classified them according to the four directions and their healing system.
• The Herb Book by John Lust.  No photos but one of the best complete books on the uses of herbs!! Easy to carry around since it is standard paperback size!

So this list covers some of my favorites on basic herbalism.  At some point in the future I will do a blog on my favorite books on the magical and ritual uses of herbs!  Until then, Happy Reading!!