Healing Herbs Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living [Paperback]

Naturally Healthy
 
Today, more and more people are trying to live healthily and fight illness without resorting to the pharmacy—and they are turning to herbs to achieve their goal.
 
This approachable handbook, with photographs for easy identification, helps you understand and take best advantage of herbal medicine. It first offers a brief introduction to the basics—such as choosing, growing, and preparing herbs. Then you will find descriptions of 60 herbs and what to use them for, and then 60 ailments that herbs can be used to treat, along with handy recipes.
 
Authoritative and easy to use,Healing Herbs Handbookis your one-stop guide to herbal health.

This approachable handbook, with photographs for easy identification, helps you understand and take best advantage of herbal medicine.Healing Herbs Handbookfirst offers a brief introduction to the basics—such as choosing, growing, and preparing herbs. Then you will find descriptions of 60 herbs and what to use them for, and then 60 ailments that herbs can be used to treat, along with handy recipes.

Barbara Brownell Grogan, currently principal for Rivanna Publishing Ventures, is former editor-in-chief of National Geographic Books and a certified health coach through New York’s Institute for Integrative Nutrition. At National Geographic she grew the health line of reference books, with titles includingNature’s Medicine,Brainworks, andMedicinal Herbs. She is co-author of500 Time-Tested Home Remedies and the Science Behind Them, 2013, and editor for USDA’sGuide to Infant Nutrition, 2018. Barbara and a team of health writers post a monthly column, The Remedy Chicks, at everydayhealth.com.

Erin Smith is a clinical herbalist and ethnobotanist and has been studying medicinal plants for over 25 years. She received her MSc in Ethnobotany with distinlƒ]