Backyard Pharmacy: Plants as Medicine One

Your remedies for common ailments are in your own backyard — literally. Featuring profiles of common healing plants, this guide by Elizabeth Millard shows how to make your own herbal remedies as well as advice on growing, harvesting, preparing, and using these herbs in healing tinctures, oils, and creams.Examples of remedies include:

• Learn how to grow and craft a poultice to soothe mosquito bites.
• Make an herbal tincture to fix sluggish digestion.
• Brew up some lemon balm iced tea to ease a stressful day.
• Craft echinacea drops to support immune system health.
• Use elderberry to ease cold and flu symptoms.
• Blend a cayenne salve to relieve inflammation.
• Steep chamomile tea to aid with insomnia.

• 208 pages
• Hardcover book

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