Healing Herbs: How to Grow, Store, and Maximize Their Medicinal Power - Paperback
by Dede Cummings (Author), Alyssa Holmes (Author), Barbara Fahs (Foreword by)
A Practical and Beautiful Guide to Using Healing Herbs at Home
Healing Herbs is your complete guide to growing and harvesting plants with medicinal properties. Dede Cummings and Alyssa Holmes include thirty profiles of useful herbs that are easy to grow or wildcraft, along with inspiring stories, medicine-making instructions, and recipes for your home medicine chest. Powerful plants such as garlic, echinacea, elder, lemon balm, yarrow, and many more are featured and included in many recipes. As you read, you'll learn the basics of gardening in your backyard--or on your windowsill or patio--as well as instructions for garden design and maintenance, harvesting, composting, and making your own teas, salves, and poultices. Healing Herbs will guide you in cultivating plants and utilizing herbs to speed the healing of wounds, reduce blood pressure, soothe skin irritations, calm uneasy stomachs, relieve arthritis, boost immunity, and ward off illnesses. In no time at all, this beautifully illustrated guide will become your go-to herbal reference.Dede Cummings is the coauthor of Living with Crohn's & Colitis: A Comprehensive Naturopathic Guide for Complete Digestive Wellness and Cooking Well: IBS, Medicinal Gardening Handbook, and Composting for the Absolute Beginner.
Alyssa Holmes is an herbalist and runs a full apothecary on her homestead where she sees clients, makes medicine, and offers retreats, learning groups, and apprenticeships. Her training includes studying with Rosemary Gladstar of Sage Mountain Herbs, Barbara Fahs on the Big Island of Hawaii, and the American Institute of Vedic Studies. Find out more at www.vitalvesselherbs.love. She lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.Made with care and unconditionally loved by our customers, this signature bestseller exceeds all expectations.
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