Botanical Brain Balms
The benefits of a plant-based diet are well-known but were you aware scientific research also shows that plants can boost cognitive skills and alleviate problems such as stress, insomnia and mood swings? In this authoritative guide, experts in plant medicine and neuroscience recommend fifty-six plants that have been rigorously tested and shown to relieve specific problems and nourish and protect the brain. Beautifully illustrated, Botanical Brain Balms is fascinating to read and packed with safe and natural ways to improve the way you think and feel.
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“This evidence-led exploration of 56 of the plant world’s best health allies is instructive and insightful.”
— Eminé Rushton, Psychologies magazine
“Often very complex chemical and pharmacological data presented with a clarity that draws the reader in.”
— Professor Monique S.J. Simmonds OBE, Deputy Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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What reviewers said.
This evidence-led exploration of 56 of the plant world’s best health allies is instructive and insightful.
— Eminé Rushton, Psychologies magazine
I congratulate the authors on the way they present often very complex chemical and pharmacological data with a clarity that draws in the reader. This up-to-date, beautifully illustrated book furthers our understanding of how plants could be contributing more to our health.
— Professor Monique S.J. Simmonds OBE, Deputy Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Elaine K. Perry.
Elaine Perry is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and one of the British researchers most closely associated with the modern study of dementia. Across some four hundred papers she has worked on Alzheimer's, Lewy body and vascular dementia, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, depression and the visual hallucinations of late-stage cognitive decline.
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Nicolette Perry is a pharmacognosist — a scholar of the medicines that plants make — whose work on sage and Alzheimer's disease, in collaboration with the neuroscience group at Newcastle University, helped bring a long-standing herbal claim under the discipline of controlled clinical investigation. The research opened a wider line of enquiry into plants for memory and cognition that has shaped much of her career since.
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