Publisher's Synopsis
A complete guide to home Herbalism!
Imagine stepping into your garden and harvesting nature's most powerful remedies-right at your fingertips. Grow Medicine: Natural Remedies from 100 Herbs shows you exactly how to cultivate, harvest, and transform everyday plants into potent teas, tinctures, and healing salves for everything from stress and digestion to immunity and skin health.
Whether you're a curious beginner or an experienced gardener, this essential guide takes you step by step through growing, caring for, and using 100 of the world's most effective medicinal herbs. From soothing lavender and immune-boosting elderberry to anti-inflammatory turmeric and digestive ginger, you'll discover how to create your own all-natural wellness cabinet-right from the soil up.
Over 100 plants thoroughly explained:
- Which plants are best for specific health conditions?
- How can I ensure my herbs are potent and effective as medicine?
- What are the safest ways to prepare and use herbal remedies?
- How can I grow effective plants indoors or in a small space?
- Can I store my own herbs for future use, and how is this done?
- How can I integrate herbal medicine into my daily wellness routine?
Each plant you'll get specific instructions on how to:
- Select the correct plant varieties (don't accidentally get the wrong ones)
- Where to find and actually purchase these varieties
- Whether it's best to begin with seeds or actual 'starts'
- Soil requirements for every plant
- Lighting - Sunlight, artificial light, how much or how little... we let you know!
- Watering - how much to make your plants happy and absolutely thrive
- Fertilizer - What type and how often
- Pests and bugs, what to watch out for
- Winter time care - healthy plants all year 'round
- Pruning and how to optimize growth like a pro
- Harvesting - what time of season and sometimes even best time of day
- Green thumb or plant killer? Each plant rated, 1 to 10 - beginner to expert
PLUS - (Flowers, Leaves, Stems, Roots, Seeds) All Explained:
- Create super-healthy Herbal Teas
- Best way to make Infusions
- Which plants are used for Creams and Ointments
- Amazing Aromatherapy plants you can grow
- Essential Oils - Instructions included on this powerful technique
- Herbal Baths & the plants you can use
- How to prepare and benefit from Steam Inhalations
- Secret potent Decoctions revealed
- Powerful Syrups - (Time to Heal)
- Simple Gargles everyone can make
- Mouthwashes for everyday
- Endless Culinary Options (healthy CAN taste great)
This isn't your typical herbal reference, that only scratches the surface with a lot of fluff-each plant profile dives deep into the process of growing, preparing, and using each one for teas, tinctures, and healing treatments you can trust.
(continue further down this page for even more details)The Lush Grove Team
