Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria

by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Book Overview

This comprehensive guide offers sound information on herbal alternatives to standard antibiotics, making it an indispensable addition to every family's medicine cabinet.

With antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise, herbal remedies present a naturally effective alternative to standard antibiotics. Herbal expert Stephen Harrod Buhner explains the roots of antibiotic resistance, explores the value of herbal treatments, and provides in-depth profiles of 30 valuable plants, noting the proper dosages, potential side effects, and contraindications of each.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603429875
• ISBN13: 9781603429870
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Herbal Antibiotics by Stephen Buhner

This book has some great information about using herbs. It is well organized and easy to understand. I have many books on herbology, but this one stands out as a must have. For any who are dealing with Lyme disease and it's co-infections, I highly recommend it.

This book could do you some good and may keep you out of herbal cure trouble.

Good book. It has some good suggestions, and very importantly, not a lot of dangerous advice. While our medical system is more often falling short, there is a lot of snake oil arriving on the `natural cures' bandwagon. The simple solution in this book could do you some good, and importantly, should keep you out of herbal cure trouble.

Excellent Primer and Quick Reference

Just the book I was looking for. The author presents the information in a very clear and concise way. The book is well formatted for quick reference too and does a good job of suggesting how to prepare dosages. It's good to see also the sources the author cites on the effectiveness of some of these herbs. The only thing I disagree with the author on is how he makes it appear that these bacteria are somehow "intelligent". Bacteria aren't intelligent. They're just little organic machines that perform to their program written in their DNA. They're not conspiring to somehow take over the world;-)

Incredible amount of information

There is a ton of information in this book, in spite of its relatively small size. Not only does it provide some excellent specific information relating to herbal antibiotics and antivirals, it provides some very good basic information and recipes for making your own herbal preparations, as well as some good preventative guidelines to help keep you from getting sick at all. If I had to pare my herbal library down to only a few books, this would be one I'd keep. I highly recommend it.

AN INCREDIBLE BOOK

Using leading-edge scientific research author Stephen Buhner reveals the little-known world of bacteria and their amazing ability to develop defenses to pharmaceutical antibiotics. Citing many of the world's leading bacteriologists he shows how bacteria will eventually develop immunity to most antibiotics - that the window of opportunity we have had as a species during the antibiotic era is almost over. He then comprehensively explores the most recent scientific research on the plant compounds that have been found in in vivo, in vitro and in human trial to be effective in treating antibiotic-resistant microorganisms. The book looks at the ten primary antibiotic-resistant disease organisms and those plants that have been found in clinical trial to be effective for their treatment. This book is a must have! It begins a long overdue exploration of more ecologically sustainable approaches to the treatment of disease with substances that are ecologically sustainable. The author's firm grasp of his subject matter and the comprehensive nature of his treatment of the subject make this a book that will continue to be useful for years to come. Highly recommended!