This highly anticipated second edition is an essential resource on the traditional medical system of Ayurveda, equipping students and practitioners with knowledge on how to incorporate herbal medicine into their lives and practice.
Students and practitioners will benefit from a history of traditional Indian medicine, core principles, treatment strategies and traditional Ayurvedic pharmacology.
Crucial updates to this second edition include extensive new content on herb safety and sustainability, plus clear sustainability alerts for specific herbs throughout the book.
With extensively updated references, over 100 plant profiles, and 50 traditional formulas including characteristics, usage, combinations, safety, and dosage, this is an invaluable text for practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine.

Sebastian Pole Lic OHM, Ayur HC, MAPA, MRCHM, FURHP is the co-founder of Pukka Herbs. Alongside his herbal studies and clinical practice, he has travelled to hundreds of organic farms arounf the world, learning from pioneering sustainable herbal value cahins, rigorous quality systems, and a regenerative approach to business. Sebastian launched Herbal Reality in 2020 to share traditional, scientific, and practical insights into herbal medicine to help inform a deeper understanding of the power of plants and clinical herbalism.
He now works with Earthsong Seeds, a medicinal seed project in the UK growing over 100 species to encourage the tradition of the self-empowered apothecary: growing and making health remedies yourself. Sebastian is also a trustee of Earthsong Foundation and serves on the Advisory Board of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. He is the author of A Pukka Life and Cleanse, Nurture, Restore with Herbal Tea. He lives in Somerset.