Backyard Medicine For All : A Guide to Home-Grown Herbal Remedies

"There is a wealth of plants growing abundantly all over roadsides, cities, and in your own backyard; this coincides perfectly with alternative medicine and natural healing reaching into every facet of our lives. These plants have numerous medicinal uses that people have largely forgotten. Once valued and widely used, they've fallen out of fashion over time as they were bypassed by commercial medicine. A companion to the team's previous book [Backyard Medicine], Backyard Medicine for All will focus largely on medicinal plants that grow by roads or paths in the countryside or in the city. These nearby but often overlooked ecosystems are significant wild plant communities! This new book is packed with practical information on how to use fifty forgotten plants to cure all sorts of common ailments. Each chapter has an introductory section that puts the plant(s) into historical and botanical context, and its forgotten or traditional medicinal uses, as well as featuring current medicinal applications. Make your own herbal medicines to cure complaints from hayfever to headaches to insomnia. Clear, easy instructions and stunning photographs will guide you to leave the armchair and go out to utilize backyard medicine yourself!"--Back cover.;Harvesting from the wayside -- Using your wayside harvest -- Alexanders -- Ash -- Avens -- Bistort -- Black horehound -- Blackthorn -- Bugle -- Butcher's broom -- Chicory -- Cranesbill -- Creeping jenny & yellow loosestrife -- Daisy -- Fleabane -- Forget-me-not -- Fumitory -- Goldenrod -- Greater celandine -- Ground elder -- Ground ivy -- Gypsywort -- Heather & bell heather -- Herb robert -- Hogweed -- Lesser celandine -- Mouse-ear hawkweed -- Navelwort -- Ox-eye daisy -- Pine -- Primrose & cowslip -- Purple loosestrife -- Rowan -- Sanicle -- Scabious -- Sea buckthorn -- Silverweed, tormentil & cinquefoil -- Sowthistle -- Speedwell -- Sphagnum moss -- Sweet chestnut -- Thistle -- Valerian -- Violet -- Walnut -- Wild carrot -- Wild strawberry -- Woundwort. Afull-color handbook by the authors of the hugely success Backyard Medicine (over 80,000 sold),this new title focuses largely on fifty medicinal plants that grow by roads or paths in the countryside or in the cityfrom Alexanders and Ash to Goldenrod and Hogweed to Walnut and Wild Strawberry. These nearby but often overlooked ecosystems are significant wild plant communities! This new book is packed with practical information on how to use fifty forgotten plants to cure all sorts of common ailments. There is a wealth of plants growing abundantly all over roadsides, cities, and in your own backyard; this coincides perfectly with alternative medicine and natural healing reaching into every facet of our lives. These plants have numerous medicinal uses that people have largely forgotten. Once valued and widely used, theyve fallen out of fashion over time as they were bypassed by commercial medicine. Each chapter has an introductory section that puts the plant(s) into historical and botanical context, and its forgotten or traditional medicinal uses, as well as featuring current medicinal applications. Make your own herbal medicines to cure complaints from hayfever to headaches to insomnia. Clear, easy instructions and stunning photographs will guide you to leave the armchair and go out to utilize backyard medicine yourself! Fifty plants that can help treat common ailments. Among the plants growing abundantly on the roadsides we pass every day, many have medicinal uses that were once highly valued—but have been forgotten by much of the modern world with the rise of commercial medicine. Backyard Medicine for All focuses largely on medicinal plants that grow by roads or paths in the countryside or in the city. These nearby but often overlooked ecosystems are significant wild plant communities, and this book is packed with practical information on how to use fifty forgotten plants to treat all sorts of common ailments. Each chapter has an introductory section that puts the plant into historical and botanical context, and explains its forgotten or traditional medicinal uses as well as current medicinal applications. With clear, easy instructions and photographs, you can make your own herbal medicines to cure complaints from hay fever to...