Jessica Houdret – författare

This safe, comprehensive and practical guide explores the powerful properties of herbs, shownto offer a more gentle, therapeutic treatment of common conditions without the side effects of many modern drugs.An introduction explains the history and how to work out safe and appropriate doses. There follows a detailed guide to herbs, and section on the various herbal approaches that can be used at home, from growing herbs to using essential oils. The core of the book shows common ailments and their symptoms, with advice and step-by-step sequences on how to treat them. The final section shows how to use herbs for beauty treatments, ranging from facial care to caring for teeth. Use this book to discover how to use herbaltreatments safely to treat the individual, everyday ailments that assail us all, as well as to stimulate our defences and boost our overall well-being.

This guide is packed with delicious recipes and healthy tonics to treat specific symptoms and rejuvenate the body. Choose from rosehip tea, high in vitamin C to ward off a cold, or chamomile tea to promote sleep. There are recipes to help treat indigestion, coughs, headaches, anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness, and to boost energy and inner peace. Includes a quick-reference guide to herbs and their medicinal uses.

This is a concise guide to natural herbal remedies for everyday ailments, shown in more than 180 photographs. You can learn to utilize the natural healing properties of herbs to treat a range of everyday symptoms, from the common cold to sunburn, sore throats, tense muscles and insomnia. It includes step-by-step instructions that show you how to make herbal teas, decoctions, infusions, compresses, poultices, ointments, creams and tinctures using fresh or dried herbs. It includes concise information that is provided on growing, harvesting and storing herbs, with creative ideas for planting up containers with herbs that will relieve symptoms. It includes a useful illustrated directory of herbs. Herbal medicine is holistic in its approach: it aims to treat the underlying causes of illness as well as the actual symptoms. Herbs have always played a key role in physical and emotional health and wellbeing, and this book explores their diverse uses. It shows how herbs can help to ward off illness, promote health and cure minor ailments, whether used in food, herbal teas, decoctions, ointments, inhalations, essential oils, compresses or poultices.There are treatments for earaches, winter blues, headaches, hangovers, anxiety, indigestion, insomnia, stress and acne. It is a useful section on growing, harvesting and storing herbs completes this handy guide.

This title includes practical ways to balance the mind, body and spirit. It is a fully illustrated guide to therapeutic flowers and their uses, and how to make safe, effective treatments at home. It includes easy-to-prepare remedies to treat everyday ailments ranging from nausea and PMS to insomnia and sore throats. It offers more than 160 photographs that include useful step-by-step sequences that demonstrate how to make flower teas, tinctures and infused oils. It contains a handy A to Z directory of some of nature's most versatile healing plants. All over the world, throughout time, people have found ways to harness the natural healing powers of flowers. This book gives guidance on the harvesting and preparation of flowers, and introduces the reader to their variety of uses, such as tisanes, tinctures and infused oils, as well as flower essences and essential oils. Specific treatments are recommended for everyday complaints such as stress, anxiety, painful periods, headaches, depression, skin problems and insomnia. Finally, an easy-to-use directory introduces the reader to the properties and uses of 60 healing flowers.With 160 photographs, this is a practical and inspirational guide.

This is a step-by-step guide to kitchen and allotment gardening with 1400 photographs. It shows you how to design a kitchen garden, with plans for a range of gardens of all shapes and sizes, including potagers and large-scale vegetable plots. It includes directories of all the main vegetables, herbs and fruit, with expert advice on cultivation, crop rotation and the best varieties to choose from. It features step-by-step practical advice on the best tools to use, preparing the soil, sowing, transplanting, propagation, training, harvesting and storage, as well as on all aspects of cultivating vegetables and herbs, and planting, pruning and propagating fruit trees. Growing your own produce is highly rewarding, and this book gives you all the knowledge you require to plan and plant your own crops. There are detailed sections on how to design a variety of kitchen and herb gardens. Beautiful plans and clear planting lists provide the inspiration to create vegetable plots, potagers, fruit gardens and container gardens.The book explains how to choose vegetables, herbs and fruit to suit different locations, the best way to lay out a garden, and how to grow and maintain everything from broccoli and potatoes to lavender and raspberries.With over 1400 photographs, this is a reference manual for all allotment gardeners.

This beautiful book is a practical guide to growing and using herbs to help maintain health and wellbeing. The book opens by tracing the history of their use, and it shows how to design and plant a herb garden or container with plants suitable for treating specific health issues. There are easy-to-follow instructions that highlight the different ways in which herbs can be safely used at home including advice on making herbal teas, infusions, tinctures, decoctions, compresses and a range of lotions. The second section of the book is arranged according to common ailment. The symptoms of each complaint are described, together with the different methods of herbal medicine to help alleviate each condition. Finally, an A–Z visual directory catalogues the herbs most often used in herbal medicine, their active properties, uses and contra-indications.

This title shows you how to identify, choose and grow herbs with an A-Z directory and more than 730 photographs. It is a comprehensive gardener's guide to growing herbs successfully, including a photographic A-Z directory of over 250 herbs for easy plant identification. It contains full descriptions and information on each herb's history, habitat and cultivation, as well as medicinal and culinary properties.

Introduction to the whole world of herbs: how to recognise types, best growing conditions, inter planting and creating a garden. Assess your space and soil, and choose the plants you can grow successfully, including all the common plants and hundreds of varieties.