Healing plants

Botanical descriptions of health-giving and medicinal plants

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Here is a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to plants that have known therapeutic qualities. Medicinal properties are described, and recipes are given for converting roots, leaves, flowers, berries and seeds into soothing and health-giving teas, ointments, inhalants, tinctures, baths, and compresses. Here too is information on how and where to cultivate, harvest, and store these plants, with additional details on their occurrence in the wild. This volume will appeal to those with interest in natural medicines - and to gardeners who may wish to cultivate these plants for medicinal or purely botanical reasons.