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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.
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