Growing & Using the Healing Herbs

by Gaea Weiss and Shandor Weiss

Book Overview

Explore the heritage of healing herbs with this richly illustrated study thatexamines more than 60 plants, their properties, benefits, and how and when toplant them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878575332
• ISBN13: 9780878575336
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very good starting reference.

Covering not only a wide variety of herbs but some trees and shrubs as well, this book contains easy to follow instructions for successful growing. Just as important it tells you how to properly harvest so that the plant is not harmed and how to dry so that the essential qualities are not lost. It also includes sections on the eastern and western use of herbs in healing, creating your garden, and an unfortunately too small area on making tinctures, lotions, salves and the like. The only other thing that I would have found helpful is a cross reference on ailments as it takes some time to find the right herb for the problem. But that is only because there is so much good information to sort through.

two thumbs up

The book Growing and Using Healing Herbs is a good book to corespond with the book A Century of Spells by: Draja Mickahavik. If you are in to the Craft and spiritulality of nature and it's healing powers, I really thing that you will like these books. Growing and Using Healing Herbs tells you how to grow the herbs and A Century of Spells tells you how to use them to enrich your life by bring you closer to God and it will open new doors that have never been seen.

I loved this book

I use this book very often for learning how to grow and care for my herbs and also for finding them in the wild. It also has information about the use and preparation of various herbs for teas, poultices, salves and oils.