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Treat ailments the natural way, with plants and herbs from your yard.
Your garden or neighborhood could hold all the plants and herbs you need to treat everything from respiratory issues to nerve pain to colic using natural remedies that are just as good for your body as they are for the environment. The Backyard Herbal Apothecary is packed to the brim with information on 50 different plants, recipes for 56 remedies, and beautiful photography on every page.
Devon Young, the founder of the holistic lifestyle blog Nitty Gritty Life, is a trained herbalist and is well practiced in developing and implementing herbal remedies. As a result, each of Young’s recipes is a natural and effective tonic for your health concerns. Use cottonwood to make a salve for achy joints, heal minor bumps and bruises with the common yard daisy, infuse some nettle to make an allergy-season combating tincture, and so much more, all using safe and locally foraged plants.
Poignant, captivating writing awakens the senses as you learn about the healing quality of each plant and discover how to grow and forage plants and herbs safely and sustainably.
The Mother Earth News Premium Issue: Super Herbs is full of the best information on what to do with herbs. Whether you want to add medicinal herbs to meals to give them a nutritional boost or infuse herbs into your honey for a sweet treat, there are recipes for you to try.
From turmeric and ginger to gotu kola and sage, the resources in Super Herbs will help you learn different ways to use these herbs and many more! Discover how to find herbal relief for skin conditions, make herbal oils, salves, and syrups, use frankincense essential oil, grow and harvest your own saffron, and so much more!
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