By using local wild plants and herbs, this book aims to improve health the natural way. The authors provide 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.

Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies is a beautiful book, packed with nearly 300 color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself. It also gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic and worldwide application of the 50 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. Julie Bruton-Seal, practicing medical herbalist and her co-author Matthew Seal have responded to the growing interest in natural medicine by aiming this book at anyone who wants to improve their health in the same way that mankind has done for centuries around the world: by using local wild plants and herbs.

The authors of the successful 'Hedgerow Medicine' move indoors to describe the wealth of healing and emergency remedies that sit unused and idle in the kitchen.

A lost classic of Western herbalism--rediscovered and restored with 200 full-color images.
Herbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson (1567-1650) was a master apothecary, herbalist, and gardener. Famous in his own lifetime for his influential books, his magnum opus, the "Theatrum Botanicum, " was published in 1640 and ran to 1,766 large pages. The sheer scope and size was perhaps to prove the book's downfall, because while it was much revered--and plagiarized--it was never reprinted and, centuries later, has attained the status of an extremely rare and valuable book. Parkinson was writing at a time when Western herbalism was at its zenith, and his skills as a gardener (from his grounds in Covent Garden) combined perfectly with his passion for science, observation, and historical scholarship.
In the "The Herbalist's Bible, " Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal have beautifully combined selections from Parkinson's book with their own modern commentary on how each plant is used today to create a truly one-of-a-kind, comprehensive collection of herbal information old and new. Parkinson's clear and lively description of a chosen plant's "vertues" or healing properties side-by-side with the editors' notes--including copious herbal recipes--make this the perfect book for students and practitioners of herbalism, historians, and gardeners, all of whom will welcome this restoration of Parkinson's lost classic.