From Aloe Vera to Zea Mays, know your medicinal plants and how to use them at home
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Introduction
Discover everything you want to know about herbal medicine from one of the leading figures in the field, Dr Andrew Chevallier.
Know your plants with the easy-to-follow A-Z profiling 140 of the most popular. Find out plants active properties, which parts are used and their current uses. Pick up the basics, from using remedies safely, to quality control and which herbal preparations to use and why.
Follow step-by-step instructions for making simple herbal preparations as a tea, decoction or tincture at home, so you can self-treat over 50 common ailments from insomnia to athlete’s foot.
Start reading and start treating.
"Eyewitness Companions offer an essential reference library, perfect for novices or anyone who just wants to know more about their favourite pastime." Heyday
Product details
Format: Paperback: flexiback
ISBN: 9781405312820
Size: 125 x 217mm
Number of pages: 288
Publication date: 03 May 2007
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
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