Healing Herbs: How to Grow, Store, and Maximize Their Medicinal Power (Cummings Dede)(Paperback)

A Practical and Beautiful Guide to Using Healing Herbs at Home Healing Herbs is your complete guide to growing and harvesting plants with medicinal properties. Dede Cummings and Alyssa Holmes include thirty profiles of useful herbs that are easy to grow or wildcraft, along with inspiring stories, medicine-making instructions, and recipes for your home medicine chest. Powerful plants such as garlic, echinacea, elder, lemon balm, yarrow, and many more are featured and included in many recipes. As you read, you'll learn the basics of gardening in your backyard--or on your windowsill or patio--as well as instructions for garden design and maintenance, harvesting, composting, and making your own teas, salves, and poultices. Healing Herbs will guide you in cultivating plants and utilizing herbs to speed the healing of wounds, reduce blood pressure,
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