I need herbal healing book recommendations

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I am looking for book recommendations on natural and herbal healing. There seem to be so many out there, it's overwhelming, and I am not sure which are good.
Thank you!

Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds by Phillis A Balch.

My most used and favorite is:
Herbal Medicine: 190 herbs to know and use.
Dr. Sharol Tilgner
https://youarethehealer.org/
she has other books equally good...this one has been handiest on my tablet and refered to often.  She participates here at permies occasionally.

I love Michael Moore's web site ....lots of free good info there.
https://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html

and we have two of Stephen Harrod Buhner's books, just in case:
Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Drug-Resistant Bacteria. Storey Publishing. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58017-148-9.
Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections. Storey Publishing. 2013. ISBN 978-1-61212-160-4.
He uses much of Michael Moores information, dosages and methods of preparation.
https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/

I was going to also recommend Stephen Herrod Buhner, just could not remember his last name even though it is in my signature.  

Pretty much anything by Rosemary Gladstar, Rosalee de LaForet, Sharon Tilgner, or 7Song. All have stellar books on both general herbalism, and specific herbs/ conditions. You can also check out Learningherbs.com. Judson Carrol also has some good books out, that teach how to integrate medicinal herbs into your daily cooking, to truly let your food be your medicine - an approach I'm personally quite fond of.

All the books by Sharol Tilgnor.

Here is a cooking book by Judson, there are links to several of his herb books in the first post. Judson is a frequent poster here. He has shared lots and lots of excerpts from his books mostly in this forum.. Here is his YouTube lesson on mimosa.

Thank you very much to all who posted their recommendations! Time to go search out the books...  I want to make a small library of them to always have on hand. Thanks again!

Check out David Winston in NJ as well, Herbalist and Alchemist, https://herbalist-alchemist.com/  
He is one of the few herbalists whose preparations are made in a highly controlled and pharmaceutical
grade facility.  He knows his stuff and is a no BS teacher.  

I second Michael Moore (gone too soon) and Rosemary Gladstar.

The others strongly recommended I will take a look at.

I think Richo Cech is reliable and good.  His nursery is:
https://strictlymedicinalseeds.com/

They still have a small free nonglossy printed catalog.

He sells seeds, roots, plants, as well as seed screens, tincture presses, etc. and has lots of hard to find herbal plants.  Includes how to grow and use them.

His book “Making Plant Medicine” is thorough, including when to harvest and how to prepare the herbs for longer term use, because everything isn’t always fresh everywhere.

He includes stories about his travels learning ethnobotany.

I love this book. I like that you can search by ailment, or by herb. It also explains how to harvest, dry, prepare herbs. The uses and benefits of each herb are explained separately. Glad I bought it.

As someone who's starting to look into herbal medicine myself, The Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine by Andrew Chevallier, The Modern Herbal Dispensatory by Thomas Easly, Medical Herbalism: The Science and Principals of Herbal Medicine by David Hoffman, and anything by Rosemary Gladstar are all highly recommended by the herbalists I know.

M.J. Wayne wrote:I love this book. I like that you can search by ailment, or by herb. It also explains how to harvest, dry, prepare herbs. The uses and benefits of each herb are explained separately. Glad I bought it.

The author Nicole Apelian has been accused of heavy AI use in several of her books by many herbalists, I'd recommend doing your due diligence and double checking any recipes or claims you see in that book. Better safe than sorry!

Allen Ayers wrote:As someone who's starting to look into herbal medicine myself, The Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine by Andrew Chevallier, The Modern Herbal Dispensatory by Thomas Easly, Medical Herbalism: The Science and Principals of Herbal Medicine by David Hoffman, and anything by Rosemary Gladstar are all highly recommended by the herbalists I know.

M.J. Wayne wrote:I love this book. I like that you can search by ailment, or by herb. It also explains how to harvest, dry, prepare herbs. The uses and benefits of each herb are explained separately. Glad I bought it.

The author Nicole Apelian has been accused of heavy AI use in several of her books by many herbalists, I'd recommend doing your due diligence and double checking any recipes or claims you see in that book. Better safe than sorry!

Thanks for that info. This book was published in 2019. That's not very old, but neither is AI. Was AI in use even back then? (asking because i know little about it)

Allen Ayers wrote:

The author Nicole Apelian has been accused of heavy AI use in several of her books by many herbalists, I'd recommend doing your due diligence and double checking any recipes or claims you see in that book. Better safe than sorry!

Thank you for mentioning this.  I was given a copy of it, and haven’t looked deeply into it, probably because I have already collected so many books.  I think I will look closely at it during the winter to come.

M.J. Wayne wrote:
Thanks for that info. This book was published in 2019. That's not very old, but neither is AI. Was AI in use even back then? (asking because i know little about it)

It was used in 2019 but it was much more limited, that book was probably published before the author got into it so in theory it should be more reliable than her more recent works.

Consider homeopathy in addition to herbalism -
It's effective, side-effect-less, and readily available without preparation.
Plus, no prescription needed.  Just 230 years of clinical experience and protocols for most every condition known to humans.
This website is a great place to start: www.joettecalabrese.com

Many good names have been suggested already, but I'll add Matthew Wood. Out of my somewhat extensive library of herbal medicine books, his Earthwise Herbal trilogy has become my favourite, and go-to books; The Earthwise Herbal Repertory, The Earthwise Herbal Volume I (Old World Medicinal Plants) and Volume II (New World Medicinal Plants). Warmly recommended!

The first one recommended to me was "herbs the magic healers" - over 100 years old

You can view it through webarchive's virtual library: https://archive.org/details/herbsmagichealer00twit

How about Herbal Medicine for Homesteaders, Preppers and Permaculture People by Judson Carroll?

I've read dozens of herbal books; my favorite is Maria Noel Groves' Body Into Balance. It's excellent, goes by system (digestive, circulatory, thyroid) after a few chapters on foundations of health with herbs and diet. Very accessible.

As others have said, Rosemary Gladstar is a good one to start with. And Sharol Tilgner's Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth is great with formulas. I also adore Kat Maier's Energetic Herbalism. It's phenomenal.

S Windlass wrote:Consider homeopathy in addition to herbalism -
It's effective, side-effect-less, and readily available without preparation.
Plus, no prescription needed.  Just 230 years of clinical experience and protocols for most every condition known to humans.
This website is a great place to start: www.joettecalabrese.com

Yes, homeopathy can be amazing! I have only used it in a couple of instances, but both times we had great results!

I have quite the medicinal herbal library now as it is a bit of a passion....can't say I've read them all cover to cover yet though but looking forward to as I get the time (which is so hard to find!).  I would however second Matthew Wood's books, "The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines" was one of my earlier buys (after I started getting more seriously into herbs I mean - i already had a bit of a heap of just used books from op shops, I could never go past a herb book!) and it is soo interesting as it's not just one of the standard directories which so many of them are, but goes into detail about the herbs and his & others' direct experience with them, there will be a few examples that will blow your mind on the power of herbs & get you really excited (hopefully!) about growing & using medicinal herbs.  Like one of my favs is about Monarda ('sweet leaf' or bergamot - not the bergamot tea) flowers rescuing a woman who had been bitten by a snake and was otherwise going to die.  She had been in massive pain, unable to sleep & getting worse for a week, and 3 days after having the flowers chewed & applied to her body she was up & about.  
Sounds unreal and some people might hate the more spiritual aspects of Wood's writing but I love it (I studied science and didn't used to be spiritual at all).
He is also the only writer i think i have come across that will mention homeopathic remedies as well, and so in that book he will say whether he has found the homeopathic or the material dose of the herb to be more effective.  
For detail on making remedies I would probably say The Herbal Medicine-makers Handbook by James Green is a good one, and another one which covers more herbs than Wood's book, goes over them in a more thorough way like a directory but also talks about energetics and gives first hand use examples as well is Lucy Jones 'A Working Herbal Dispensary'.  Covers quite a few herbs whereas Woods book is a shorter list of herbs.  
I would highly recommend those 3 as a very good solid foundation for your library...
Good luck & enjoy!
Oh, you may want to look at flower essences too, I haven't got any books on that yet, I have a friend who has been learning & experimenting on people with them, I'm not sure you necessarily need a book to dabble in them they're seem fairly simple, yet powerful for mental emotional wellbeing.  

Homeopathy can be highly effective.  My son used to get poison oak pretty badly.  Swelling, broken skin exuding body fluids.  A chiropractor in Santa Cruz CA gave me two preparations.  She said give him the first when I first noticed he had a rash, then call her every day to report.  When a certain change occurred, she would then say to switch to the second…

He’s mid thirties now.  He does have a strange skin condition that flares up when he’s stressed or eats more sweets than is prudent, but he doesn’t get poison oak any more.

+1 on the Matthew Wood pick. The story style books stick with me a lot more than the plain plant lists.

I'd also recommend looking for well regarded books dedicated to your region. I like Coreypine Shane's book a lot for the Southeast.