Get Your Sugars and Spices Right

 

 

Traditional Herbal Medicines: A Guide To Their Safer Use

 

Sugar and spice and all things nice are the types of food we all like to consume over Christmas. But do you really know what effect the flavours you add to your food do to you? Many of these herbs ad spices are used by herbal practitioners.

 

You may not know that cinnamon shouldn’t be used in pregnancy, especially the essential oil as it can stimulate the uterus.

 

Large doses of nutmeg can cause serious side effects including nausea and vomiting.

 

Though whilst you need not go and skip the spice wrack you got for Christmas, being aware of the potential effects of herbs and spices may prove sage. 

 This book is written by experts at the Medical Toxicology Unit of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital in London, and is an ideal reference book for herbal practitioners as well as anyone who takes herbal medicines on a regular basis.
 

www.hammersmithpress.co.uk,

 

£19.99.