Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies

Alternative medicine and natural healing are an important part of a healthy lifestyle. A lack of confidence in commercial medicine and an interest in getting closer to nature have made "alternative" treatments mainstream. Packed with nearly 300 color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself, Backyard Medicine offers fascinating home remedies for everyday aliments, including:

• Birch leaf tea as a remedy for kidney stones
• Dandelion oil to relieve muscle tension
• Elderflower as a cough syrup
• Hops as a tincture to cure insomnia 
• Red clover Tea to reduce acne
• Rose hip vinegar to alleviate a sore throat
• Willow bark tincture for sports-related aches and pains

With easy-to-follow recipes for treatments of eczema, cellulite, indigestion, earaches, and many other ailments, this full-color handbook is essential for anyone who wants to harvest and make herbal remedies from wild plants. It will bring you closer to nature, help you and your family feel better, and save you money. Backyard Medicine is as practical as it is beautiful

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 it's quarterly magazine, Nature's Path.

Matthew Seal is a writer and editor.

Pages: 206 Pages

Author: Julie Bruton-Seal & Matthew Seal