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Backyard Medicine.
Backyard Medicine is a beautiful book, packed with nearly 300 color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself. It gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic, and world-wide application of the fifty common plants that it covers. It is the sort of book you can enjoy as an armchair reader or use to harvest and make your own herbal remedies from wild plants. Anyone who wants to improve his or her health in the same way that human-kind has done for centuries around the world, by using local wild plants and herbs, will find this book fascinating and useful.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780785829737
- ISBN: 0785829733
- Physical Description: xviii, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), hbk. ; 24 cm
- Edition: North American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Castle Books, 2012.
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in Great Britain by Merlin Unwin Books, 2008 as Hedgerow medicine"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 198-202) and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Herbs > Therapeutic use > Popular works. |
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- 3 of 5 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 0 of 0 copies available at Marshall.
- 0 of 0 copies available at Marshall Public Library.
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- 1 current hold with 5 total copies.
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Backyard Medicine : Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies
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Summary
Backyard Medicine : Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies
Nature abounds with forgotten remedies for countless health problems, and alternative medicine and natural healing have reached into every facet of our lives. This book responds to the growing interest in natural medicine and provides a natural way to improve your health, using local plants and herbs in the same way that people have done for centuries around the world. This book provides clear instructions about which plants to harvest to make over 120 recipes for teas, vinegars, oils, creams, pillows, poultices or alcohol-based tinctures.With easy-to-follow recipes for treatment of eczema, cellulite, indigestion, earaches, and many more, this full-color handbook is essential for anyone who wants to harvest and make herbal remedies from wild plants. It will bring you closer to nature, help you and your family feel better, and save you money. This book is as practical as it is beautiful.
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