Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs


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Provides information on the history, uses, range, and characteristics of more than one hundred herbs, and offers tips on growing them




Dr. Kidd's Guide to Herbal Dog Care


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Holistic veterinarian Dr. Randy Kidd explains how herbs can be used in the care of dogs. Includes chapters on common dog ailments and how to address them. Illustrations.




A Kid's Herb Book


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A creative blend of information, projects, activities, preparations, colour-in artwork, stories, songs, lore and interesting herbal tidbits. This book will help parents and their children learn about herbs.




Grow It, Heal It


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Where there's a symptom, there's also a homegrown cure. With just a windowsill, container, or small space, it's easy to grow an instant herbal remedy. Whether it's a cough, heartburn, joint pain, or neuralgia, readers will discover how easy it is to treat 40 ailments and conditions using herbs and herbal preparations they grow and make themselves. With inspiration found in science, tradition, and modern herbalistic practices, Grow It, Heal It touts the healing power of more than 50 herbs—from anise hyssop to yerba mansa. Two of the nation's premiere herbalists share growing, harvesting, and healing advice in this easy-to-use and friendly guidebook for herbal newbies, featuring teas, tinctures, salves, poultices, compresses, and aromatherapy. Among the many benefits of growing do-it-yourself remedies, readers will discover the convenience of preparing healing potions and salves when they're most needed; the advantage of having organic, fresh, and high-quality herbs they've nurtured themselves; and how empowering it is to engage in self-care and why that's important to the healing process. Growing herbs at home allows readers to take an active role in their own health care.




The Rodale Herb Book


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Your Backyard Herb Garden


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Here, in one complete, beautifully illustrated volume, is everything readers need to know to grow and use their own herbs. A special encyclopedia section gives clear information on identifying, growing, and enjoying more than 70 herbs. 200 color photos. 100 color illustrations.




Herbs


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The quick and easy photographic guide to herbs of the world--for novices and established enthusiasts alike. This compact visual guide features the highest-quality photographs, capturing the unique details of more than 700 plants used by people around the world in cooking, healing, cosmetics, and even pest control. Each herb's entry includes annotated photographs to highlight the herb's distinguishing features, color illustrations showing a typical specimen of the plant or tree, and the plant's natural habitat and native region to help identify it. Discover what each herb is used for, including applications in food preparation, medicine, beauty treatment, aromatherapy, and crafts, while symbols on every page detail which parts of the plant are used. The introduction covers the anatomy of an herb, reveals how herbs have been utilized throughout history, and explains how we use herbs in the modern world, from medicinal uses to the pleasures of a well-kept herb garden, making it an essential reference for anyone interested in exploring their local forest or cultivating herbs.




The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook


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Offers advice on herbal healing, includes an encyclopedic review of health conditions that herbal medicine can help, and discusses 180 herbs with information on dosages, food and drug interactions, benefits, and side effects.




Lasagna Gardening with Herbs


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A guide to growing an organic herb garden that requires a minimum of maintenance includes more than fifty recipes and instructions for a range of herb projects.