Hedgerow Medicine: Harvest and Make your own Herbal Remedies

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There are clear instructions about which plants to harvest, when, and over 120 recipes showing how to make them into teas, vinegars, oils, creams, pillows, poultices or alcohol-based tinctures. First, we wanted to give you a beautiful book that is a joy to read, with the page-turning appeal of a good novel.

If you need help with anything at all, please contact us and one of the team will be happy to assist. Parkinson (1567–1650) was the official herbalist to King Charles I, a renowned gardener and London apothecary. With her husband Matthew Seal, Julie has written Hedgerow Medicine (2008) (Backyard Medicine), Kitchen Medicine (2010), Make your own Aphrodisiacs (2012)(Aphrodisia), and The Herbalist's Bible (2014). The text blends the history of the plants with their modern herbal applications, folklore and botany.I think it’s clear - now more than ever - that we must take personal responsibility for our health and equip ourselves with the knowledge we need to flourish in this world. Here are 90 exciting plant-based recipes featuring common weeds, showcasing why they are delicious, nutritious, healthful, too good to waste, and free! Before you know it you ll be strolling book in hand along autumn hedgerows picking remedies that will see you through what the winter has to throw at you.

We hope you love your course and products as much as we do, and that you are entirely satisfied with your purchase. I'm a sucker for history, and this book brought me much joy reading about herbs I'd viewed as weeds in the past, and how useful they really are! Our hope it that our readers will be able to recognise, get to know and feel comfortable with wild plants, respect them and work effectively with them.It contains each herb, with its own page or two (or three) about what it does, how to use it, how the herb was used in history with a beautiful accompanying picture to boot! Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.For example, elecampane root for cough syrup and an immune tonic in the autumn and winter, marigold for infused oil in the summer.