Bøker av Thomas Easley

The definitive, full-color guide to making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, with instructions for everything from harvesting to administering low-cost, DIY remedies. This comprehensive, full-color guide provides detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, including practical tips and numerous effective formulas developed and tested by the authors, both expert herbalists with years of experience. Readers who appreciate the health-giving properties of herbal medicines but are discouraged by the high price of commercial products can now make their own preparations for a fraction of the cost. The authors tell you everything you need to know about harvesting, preparing, and administering herbs in many different forms, including fresh, bulk dried herbs, capsules, extracts in water, alcohol, glycerin, vinegar and oil, and even preparations like essential oils and flower essences. The book also covers topical applications of herbs as salves, lotions, poultices, tooth powders, ear drops, and more, and includes an extensive chapter on herbal hydrotherapy. The Modern Herbal Dispensary explains why different preparations of the same herb will obtain better results, demonstrating how capsules, teas, tinctures, or glycerites of the same plant will not have exactly the same effect on the body. Leading herbalists Thomas Easley and Steven Horne have tested and proven the herbal formulas they offer, along with suggestions for treating more than one hundred illnesses. They lay out the principles of herbal formulation and also provide instructions on how to prepare single herbs, a procedure that has been largely ignored in other references. More comprehensive than any other guide, thoroughly researched, beautifully illustrated, and presented with ease of use in mind, this book will take its place as the premier reference for those who want to produce all the herbal remedies they need, and to save money in the process.

Ben Marmot, a man with a life of promise gone wrong, is an anarchist, antiestablishment iconoclast. Awell-traveled 64-year-old decorated war hero and a sniper in the Vietnam War, his country has all but forgotten him. With each passing day it seems the establishment is taking away more and more of the freedom he depends on to survive. Traumatized by life and suffering from PSTD, angry and bitter, he is reduced to living in trailer park in Paradise at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Sally, a 33-year-old ethereal being, also lives in Paradise. When Ben meets Sally, they immediately see hope in one other. Forced inside themselves and in their own world, Sally and Ben find solace. When the 2018 Paradise campfire, the deadliest wildfire in California's history began, Sally and Ben decide to make a new start. Like Thelma and Louise, Bonnie and Clyde, and other infamous duos, Sally and Ben embark on a road trip to Key West.A la Jack Kerouac's "On the Road'" we follow the journey of these lost souls on their counterculture road trip and watch their traumas play out in unbelievable ways. We hear their ideas about a world gone wrong, watch as they become renegades for freedom. Written in terse, stunning, in-your-face prose, Blunt will force you to think past your own boundaries to a larger, more complex and connected world. And it will make you wonder about our idea of freedom. You'll have to decide, however, if Ben is proof-positive crazy...and if Sally is even real? Is their free-spirited and carefree journey real or imagined? A fun read, trying to decipher their world and the characters, you will marvel at the madness not far from Today's America, where political and media attention overly focuses on what divides us; and on the degradation of moral reality and free fall into debauchery...It's not difficult to imagine Blunt! Sexual content