The Medicinal Garden

Treat, feed and soothe straight from your garden

Caroline Parker, Lucy Mora

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Thames & Hudson
30 July 2024

Gardening; Gardening: plants

Medicinal herbs aren't just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Medicinal Garden is a brilliant guide to revitalising your health by soothing your mind, body and green thumb.

From edible treats to therapeutic remedies, unearth the healing potential of plants both wild and cultivated. Featuring forty herb profiles and seven medicinal weeds ideal for foraging, learn how to set up and maintain a planted or potted garden for a healthful life.

Discover the healing power of your very own medicinal garden with edible recipes for cakes, biscuits, salads, soups, teas and many more. The book features easy, natural remedies for your skin, gut, muscles, heart and mind with recipes for oils, tinctures, compresses, steams and washes for health and healing.

The Illustrated Garden Series description Gardens are an endless supply of bounty. Many of our everyday needs can be met with a garden. This new series, referencing seasons rather than months, works with authors and illustrators to offer practical information in an original package on how to cultivate, grow, pick, treat, heal, observe, preserve and learn from the garden. Series includes: The Kitchen Garden (2022) The Preserving Garden (2023) The Medicinal Garden (2024) The Picking Garden (2025)

By: Caroline Parker
Illustrated by: Lucy Mora
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 932g
ISBN: 9781760764265
ISBN 10: 1760764264
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Caroline Parker (BHSc Western Herbal Medicine) is a herbalist, farmer, forager and facilitator. She grows herbs and flowers for her business, The Cottage Herbalist, where she sells her award-winning, certified organic and wildcrafted tea blends. When she isn't in her studio hand-blending and packing orders she is sowing seeds, picking flowers, prepping garden beds, shovelling compost and tearing around on the ride-on mower.