Healing Herbs

How to Grow, Store, and Maximize Their Medicinal Power

Dede Cummings, Alyssa Holmes, Barbara Fahs

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Skyhorse Publishing
10 July 2024

Traditional medicine & herbal remedies; Gardening: plants

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.

By: Dede Cummings, Alyssa Holmes
Foreword by: Barbara Fahs
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Reissue, New edition, Second Edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781510778771
ISBN 10: 1510778772
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 10 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. She lives inBrattleboro, Vermont.

Reviews for Healing Herbs: How to Grow, Store, and Maximize Their Medicinal Power

"""What a beautiful book--so full of inspiring information, heart, and soul. I'm a reader who not only hungers for information, but for personal connections when I read. And this book delivers both in ample and abundant ways."" --Rosemary Gladstar"