The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual [An Herbalism Book]

By James Green

Book Overview

Create a holistic, at-home pharmacy tailored to your lifestyle with this definitive resource for making affordable herbal remedies that can restore gut health, lower blood pressure, combat anxiety, and more, from the renowned herbalist and co-founder of the American Herbalists Guild.

Herbal medicine-making has been a fundamental staple of human nutrition and health for millennia. In The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook, celebrated herbalist James Green explores the numerous benefits of plants and herbs and shows how you, too, can harness them in your daily life. Budget-friendly and easy to make, herbal remedies have extraordinary capabilities for alleviating insomnia, treating infections, soothing headaches, and many other vital benefits. Learn how to erase the stresses of modern life with this invaluable handbook that includes:

- Comprehensive charts of different herbs and their healing properties
- A short list of easy-to-find equipment for making solvents, infusions, tinctures, creams, lozenges, and more
- Instructions on how to garden, harvest, and store your own herbs
- Recipes for anti-fungal lotions, cough-suppressing syrups, earache-relieving oil infusions, and pain-relieving poultices, to name a few
- And so much more

Armed with The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook, you'll gain the confidence and knowledge to create your own natural remedies at home so you can combat any ailment that comes your way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895949903
• ISBN13: 9780895949905
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Crossing Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

Amazing Handbook for Making Herbal Medicines

This is used as a textbook for the medicine making portion of HERBalachia's Herbalist Lifestyle Program and I cannot recommend it enough! James Green's humor shines through in his writing and keeps the material from being too dry and boring.