Peter Conway – författare

With herbal medicine and the use of tree preparations set to become a significant part of mainstream healthcare in the 21st century, Peter Conway explains how we can unlock their ancient healing properties to benefit our health. In this important book he looks at: The history of trees in medicine; Why trees are effective in healing; The role of trees in herbal medicine, aromatherapy and flower and tree essences; The various types of preparation, with step-by-step instructions where appropriate; Professional help with tree medicine - what is available and what to expect; Self-help using tree medicine - which conditions can be treated and how; Other approaches to healing with trees; wood carving, growing trees, tree meditation; Descriptions of the healing properties of over 150 trees from around the world.

A seminal text exploring the means by which the herbal practitioner can seek to appreciate the individual patient's predicament.Written for both herbal medicine students and practitioners, The Consultation in Phytotherapy takes a radical approach, challenging readers to reflect on the nature, scope and methods of the consultation in herbal practice.Author Peter Conway asserts that the effective consultation represents a therapeutic act in and of itself, and proposes strategies for maximising and realising this therapeutic potential.His book provides both a complement to, and a critique of, mainstream texts on clinical diagnosis and case management.It contrasts the herbal consultation with that occurring in conventional medicine and offers rationales, arguments and tools aimed at developing an enhanced capacity to achieve profound results in the herbal clinical encounter.