Table of Contents

Introduction

1: What is inflammation? Acute and chronic inflammation

2: How can it be measured? Signs and symptoms showing inflammation

3: Inflammatory processes in the body – some of the complex networks linking them

4: The causes and risk factors for chronic inflammation

5: The results of inflammation – the chronic inflammatory diseases

6: Using diet to reduce inflammation

7: Other methods to reduce inflammation

8: Using herbs to reduce inflammation

9: Materia medica

Appendix: the major inflammation-mediating herbs and their areas of action

Notes to the text

Resources

Index

About the Author

Christine Herbert FAMH, DipAET, BA (Hons) qualified as a herbalist in 1997, after spending nineteen years in the NHS as a biomedical scientist. She retired from practice in 2019 in order to dedicate her time to sharing her knowledge through teaching and writing. Christine is an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Master Herbalists.