Backyard Medicine For All

Backyard Medicine For All
Author: Julie Bruton-Seal
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1510725954

There is a wealth of plants growing abundantly all over roadsides, cities, and in your own backyard; this coincides perfectly with alternative medicine and natural healing reaching into every facet of our lives. These plants have numerous medicinal uses that people have largely forgotten. Once valued and widely used, they’ve fallen out of fashion over time as they were bypassed by commercial medicine. A companion to the team’s previous book, Backyard Medicine for All will focus largely on medicinal plants that grow by roads or paths in the countryside or in the city. These nearby but often overlooked ecosystems are significant wild plant communities! This new book is packed with practical information on how to use fifty forgotten plants to cure all sorts of common ailments. Each chapter has an introductory section that puts the plant(s) into historical and botanical context, and its forgotten or traditional medicinal uses, as well as featuring current medicinal applications. Make your own herbal medicines to cure complaints from hayfever to headaches to insomnia. Clear, easy instructions and stunning photographs will guide you to leave the armchair and go out to utilize backyard medicine yourself!

The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections

The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections
Author: Holden Arboretum
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780873384339

More than 970 rare books, dating from 1479 to 1830 and covering such categories as gardening, herbals, botanical books and landscape architecture are catalogued in this bibliography.

Book of Simples

Book of Simples
Author: Henry Lewer
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2008
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429010827

Published in 1910 and edited by Henry Lewer, the introduction describes the manuscript source for this work as ""found in the library of a distinguished Wessex antiquary."" Covering a period of some fifty years, terminating about the middle of the eighteenth century, the work provides an interesting array of recipes for ""simples""--herbal remedies used both to prevent and cure common ailments.