55 medicinal plants in my garden. Growing them, harvesting them, preserving them
A medicinal garden at your fingertips! Thanks to the hard work of herbal medicine advocates, "health" plants are making a comeback.
55 plantes médicinales dans mon jardin offers a gardening treatise specifically on medicinal plants, with practical information on growing, harvesting and preserving plants.
By taking us on a journey of discovery through the medicinal garden, this book invites us to cultivate our own natural, personalized pharmacy, harvesting the ingredients to make our own remedies. The gardener will thus cultivate a garden in the image of his or her health, enabling him or her to deal with his or her own ailments.
55 fact sheets, presenting the plants most commonly used in natural pharmacopoeia, detailing growing conditions, harvesting and storage methods, as well as therapeutic properties and any warnings to be aware of, will enable you to choose the plants best suited to your needs. Simple recipes for decoctions, macerations, hydrolats and syrups make it easy to transform your medicinal plants.
From garden to medicine cabinet, the path isn't so complicated!
Virginie Peytavi - Terre Vivante - 207 pages