Materia Medica Of Western Herbs for the Southern Hemisphere. By Carole Fisher and Gillian Painter. In Large Softcovers ring bound, First Published in 1996 Revised Edition 1996, illustrations, 260 Pages, Published By The Authors. A Near Fine Copy. SCARCE. Preface- 'This book grew out of the need to provide suitable material for teaching students of herbal medicine in New Zealand. Western herbal medicine is based on British, European and North American plants, and only books written by northern hemisphere herbalists have previously been available. These provide universal information on the constituents and actions of the medicinal plants but no account is taken of differences in growing conditions of many of these herbs in Australia and New Zealand. Also, the information is scattered through many texts and materia is often only provided in a small reference section at the back of the book rather than being the main topic. We therefore set out to find a solution to the problems we experienced as teachers and this is the result!'