"Herbal Medicine is a book written by experts and edited by the renowned Edzard Ernst. The book seeks to represent the journey of herbal medicine from grand mother’s house remedy to the sophistication and scientific authenticity of modern-day pharmacy. It has dealt with all the problems this involves including language (information often being written in local language) As all things of nature the medicinal values of herbs seem to be locked up with complexity and it is one of man’s greatest challenges to make them available for our use. The process has begun says this book. It was interesting to note that herbalism in its forms is almost universally present. Equally interesting are the difficulties associated with herbalism. The presence of various components, their isolation by standardized methodologies, their effect on us as single ingredients or together, synergetic or antagonistic behavioures, defining their medical and toxic values etc.have all been discussed. Would the present methods of research and proving be able to deliver the results we seek from herbalism? The results hold promise but a lot more trials need to be done before they can be safely used. The concepts touched upon in the book would interest professional and all others with serious interests in medical herbalism. "