Books like Human Energy Systems by Jack Schwarz

Before formal science enabled a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of diseases, and treat complaints of every kind. Today, people still use medicinal plants, in traditional roles or as building blocks for new research and innovative drugs. Featuring 350 full-color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this book is based on the work of botanical experts and presents alphabetically arranged, illustrated entries for hundreds of plants. Each is described, with full details of its physical appearance and medicinal uses; its origins and geographic distribution, how it's harvested and used in conventional and alternative medicine, and a range map. There are also sidebars on everything from ancient folklore to the latest research.--From publisher description.

This book is designed to bring into perspective the massive knowledge acquired by man to retain his health by using the plants around him. Man's survival has been dependent on his innate curiousity, his desire to examine by trial and error all aspects of his environment, and to conclude which materials are remedial, which ones are harmful, and which give him the greatest nourishment.

"The Review of Natural Products is the most comprehensive, scientifically based natural product publication available today, providing reliable answers based on fact, not anecdotal information. The over 400 fully referenced, peer-reviewed monographs offer quick and easy access to complete herbal, botanical, and natural product information." -- Page 4 of cover.