The Herbal Home Remedy Book: Simple Recipes for Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Tonics, and Syrups (Herbal Body)
The Herbal Home Remedy Book: Simple Recipes for Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Tonics, and Syrups (Herbal Body)
Believe it or not, your backyard holds the secrets of generations of healing wisdom. From blackberry bushes to dandelion flowers, violets greens to white pine sap – healing plants are everywhere, and The Herbal Home Remedy Book is like a guided walk through the woods and fields with a master herbalist. You’ll learn how to identify gather, and use 25 healing herbs to make natural remedies in the form of teas, tinctures, salves, wines, vinegars, syrups, and lozenges.
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Great for the budding herbalist,
I purchased this book hoping that it would guide me in the creation of herbal remedies — I’d always had a culinary herb garden and wanted to expland my horizons. I wasn’t disappointed — there were many simple recipes for decoctions, poultices, and other non-culinary herb uses. However, some — okay, many! — of the descriptions and instructions were beyond what the simple practicioner or budding herbalist could understand. In the end, I just use the recipes I’ve marked and ignore the rest of the book.
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|Excellent beginner’s guide to the world of herbal medicine,
This book is written in a humorous, easy to understand and concise format. It is an great way for someone who has never studied herbal medicine before to dip their toes in the water. Ms. Wardwell is very clear about the dangers of using certain herbs. It also has wonderful guidelines on learning how to identify the different types of plants and herbs you’ll be using. Ms. Wardwell also includes several recipes for various tinctures, teas, wines and vinegars to be used. She also offers interesting stories explaining the folklore behind certain plants as well. I can’t recommend this book highly enough to any student of herbalism whether beginner or advanced.
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|The Art of Simpling…,
Simpling refers to a method of learning herbalism. Choose an herb and explore every facet of it – leaves, petals roots, uses, dangers – inside and out. When you finally “know” that, then and only then, choose a second herb to get to know. This book is an amazing primer for beginners to herbalism. I chafed its simplicity at first, “More herbs! Its too basic!”, until I really began to learn my first herb, catnip. Then I realized how silly I’d been and how very much there was to learn. This book is a bible for beginners!
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