Family Medicinal Plant Gardens

This book reflects the collective knowledge of Ugandan traditional healers, herbalists and farmers for quotidian ailments. It describes plants that can grow in your garden, hoe to produce medicine out of them and which ailments to cure with these preparations. Most information is been gathered during work sessions or direct interference with healers and farmers and crosschecked with other healers and herbalists. The plants described grows all in the Rwenzori region of Uganda, most of them are present in East Africa. This book is to be consulted at every small accident or illness that occurs daily in the family, collect from your garden the plants you need to prepare a first aid recipe to start the treatment. Do not forget to check with a medicinal practitioner when possible.

Craft a soothing aloe lotion after an encounter with poison ivy, make a dandelion-burdock tincture to fix sluggish digestion, and brew up some lavender-lemon balm tea to ease a stressful day. In this introductory guide, Rosemary Gladstar shows you how easy it can be to make your own herbal remedies for life’s common ailments. Gladstar profiles 33 common healing plants and includes advice on growing, harvesting, preparing, and using herbs in healing tinctures, oils, and creams. Stock your medicine cabinet full of all-natural, low-cost herbal preparations.

This book continues the story of the Cech family as they settle in Southern Oregon and plant their garden of medicinal herbs. Drawing from over 25 years of experience, Richo introduces the principles of natural gardening techniques, including observation in nature, planting with the seasons, creating plant habitat, the benefits of diversity and rules of green thumb. Advice is given on preparing the ground, planting cover crops, making compost and potting soil, planting seeds and cuttings, building the greenhouse and the shadehouse, caring for plants, growing medicinal herb seeds, and the harvest and processing of medicinal herbs.

Traditionally, plants were used to treat and cure whatever ails, from cuts and burns to colds and flu, from stress and insomnia to arthritis and hemorrhoids. Now you can harness natures healing power in your garden. In this book, which has been seven years in development, veteran garden writers Alison Beck and A.H. Jackson feature some of the most common and easy-to-grow plants that also have medicinal qualities. Each of the 87 accounts includes: medicinal properties historic and contemporary healthful, healing uses height, spread and hardiness prominent features such as habit, flower colour and bloom time planting information, including sun and soil requirements tips on where and how to include it in your garden recommended species and varieties problems and pests 175 colour photos. By no means a medical resource, this gardening guide is simply that a how-to for growing medicinal plants.

Barbara and Peter Theiss share their knowledge as parents and their professional experience in naturopathy, pharmacology, and herbalism to show how herbal medicine is the safest and most reliable method to care for most of your family's health needs. Includes chapters on healing herbs, emergency first aid, and growing your own herb garden.

Just starting to grow herbs? Then this one's for you! Learn how to grow your own medicine with this medicinal herb gardening book for beginners. If you're ready to distance yourself from Big Pharma and become naturally self-sufficient, then you've just found your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! This book covers all the basics you NEED to know, including: 50+ Herbs and their medicinal, culinary, aromatherapy, tea and other uses How to get away from pharmaceuticals and become self-sufficient The TOP 10 mistakes people do that damages their beautiful gardens The natural way to keep pests away so your garden is endlessly flourishing Grow Your Own Medicine is filled with vibrant, rich colors and clear illustrations so that you feel like you're already IN the garden - before you even start reading! Ava Green takes her five decades of experience as a home apothecary and gives you the perfect guide for all beginner medicinal herb growers. Grow your own herbal medicine to: Avoid the negative side effects of conventional medicine Become your own herbal dispensary Prevent and treat the root causes of ailments with science-backed medicinal herbs Help a friend or family member in need with your herbal first-aid kit And so much more… Dozens have thanked me as they have had success on their herbal journeys. With this guide you CAN be the self-sufficient apothecary for YOU and YOUR family. Reconnect with mother nature and let her do the rest. Don't let this opportunity pass you by. Scroll up and click "Add to Cart" now!