Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies

Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies

by Julie Bruton-Seal, Matthew Seal
Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies

Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies

by Julie Bruton-Seal, Matthew Seal

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Overview

Backyard Medicine is a beautiful book, packed with nearly 300 color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself. It gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic, and world-wide application of the fifty 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. Anyone who wants to improve his or her health in the same way that human-kind has done for centuries around the world, by using local wild plants and herbs, will find this book fascinating and useful.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781602397019
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 05/01/2009
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Julie Bruton-Seal is a practicing medical herbalist and natural healer. She is a council member of the Association of Master Herbalists and editor of its quarterly magazine, Nature’ s Path.

Matthew Seal is a writer and editor. They reside in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk.

Table of Contents

Preface to the North American edition 7

Preface to the 10th anniversary edition 8

Introduction 9

Harvesting from the wild 10

Using your herbal harvest 12

Agrimony 20

Bilberry 24

Birch 28

Blackberry, Bramble 32

Burdock 36

Cherry 40

Chickweed 42

Cleavers 46

Comfrey 50

Couch grass 54

Curled dock, Yellow dock 58

Dandelion 62

Elder 68

Figwort 74

Guelder rose, Crampbark 78

Hawthorn 80

Honeysuckle, Woodbine 86

Hops 88

Horse chestnut 90

Horseradish 94

Horsetail 96

Lime, Linden 100

Lycium 103

Mallow 108

Meadowsweet 112

Mint 116

Mugwort 120

Mullein 126

Nettle 130

Oak 136

Pellitory of the wall 140

Plantain 142

Ramsons, Bear garlic 148

Raspberry 152

Red clover 155

Red poppy 158

Rosebay willowherb, Fireweed 162

Self-heal 166

Shepherd's purse 171

Sorrel 174

St. John's wort 176

Sweet cicely 182

Teasel 185

Vervain 188

White deadnettle, Archangel 191

Wild lettuce 194

Wild rose 196

Willow 202

Willowherb 204

Wood betony 206

Yarrow 210

Notes to the text 215

Recommended reading 219

Resources 220

Index 221

The Authors 224

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