herbs

Growing and harvesting an herb garden can be fun and oh so satisfying--even in the dead of winter.

"Learn how to take care of different types of plants in the Gardening series.".

This is the ultimate reference for anyone looking to bring the beauty and therapeutic properties of plants into their garden, kitchen, and home apothecary. Both informative and accessible, it covers how to plan your garden...essential information on seed propagation, soil quality, and holistic gardening practices...30 detailed profiles of must-know plants...and 70 recipes for teas, tinctures, oils, salves, syrups, and more.

Cayenne pepper can stop bleeding. Garlic helps alleviate a toothache. Honey soothes a burn. When an emergency situation arises, simple home remedies can play a vital role in easing symptoms and providing immediate help. Become an effective first responder with a combination of best first-aid practices, herbs, and standard homeopathic applications. This quick-reference handbook spells out hundreds of life-saving techniques, commonsense tips, and time-tested herbal remedies that everyone should know. From how to perform basic CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver to the best immediate response to natural disasters, you'll find the most practical, effective actions to take to ensure survival.

A comprehensive guide to alternative medicine that provides information and recipes for herbal remedies.

Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses, harvesting, storage, labor, debt, customer management, sales, accounting, and much more. With this comprehensive guide, you can turn your dream of a thriving farm into a profitable reality.

Provides a guide to more than one hundred herbs, including ginseng and ginkgo biloba, and their uses according to Native American tribes, and contains a guide to making herbal remedies for everything from pain relief to nervousness.

"Provides recipes for creating such natural cleaning and wellness products as insect repellent, body lotion, soap scum remover, and teeth whitener"--OCLC.

Examines the natural and cultural origins of herbs, spices, and seasonings from around the world, discussing their culinary, medicinal, and aromatic uses. Provides over fifty recipes for cooking with these herbs and using them for medicine and aroma therapy.