The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition

11 The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutritionour bodies, our health 11 What is certain is that what counts ...

(^2) Celebrating Nature’s Alchemy and Fragrance “While the plant is growing, an enormous amount of electrical or vital energy is ...

simple gratitude and celebration. All over the world in earlier times, trees were “dressed” using ribbons or small toys tied on ...

the Western Hemisphere, and lavender from south Europe. Nature and Its Health Pollution has already affected half of Britain’s t ...

immune-system diseases and allergy problems. Much open land is being lost to development; it has fallen victim to money and an i ...

poplar, is much more likely to be blown away. Rough-fi ssured bark can also trap, and trees planted in groups, with their increa ...

the quest to understand and change the causes for the loss of wild plants and the symptoms of destruction. It actually conserves ...

and insect predators and parasites. Even Britain’s largest producer of chemical insecticides and fertilizers, ICI, has said that ...

common in your immediate surroundings. The process of creating a herbal profi le will help you to appreciate that the trees and ...

are useful for sore eyes, minor injuries, and skin problems such as eczema, psoriasis, warts, infl ammation, and irritation. haw ...

the bowel because, by stimulating bile fl ow, it helps stimulate peristalsis, which helps release toxins. If you don’t want to d ...

red clover (trifolium pratense) Part used: fl ower Red clover is an unequaled blood cleanser used for degenerative diseases and ...

(^3) The Plants Themselves Best-Quality Herbs The best herbs to use for medicinal or culinary purposes are those collected from ...

24 The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition Rich in rutin, this tree’s leaves not only help strengthen t ...

John Christopher, and it was a treat to fi nd his standard of excellence at a time that many people paid little attention to suc ...

use of pesticides, including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other agents, with a tenfold increase in potency. Pestici ...

Plants as Investments and Moneymakers Plants are becoming an increasingly profi table investment. Europe, the United States, Jap ...

looking for that magic bullet. This problem was refl ected in a lesson learned in 1995: fl a vonoids are a component of many pla ...

will produce a slightly different chemistry, but spring collecting should be done before major foliage and stem production has b ...

cotton sock on a wire rim that holds the herbs and can be set into a mug, cup, or pot and left to infuse in boiling water. Use^1 ...