You've got Boots the chemist growing in your back garden but you just don't know it yet. This book features fantastically easy recipes for natural remedies and beauty treats.

You've got Boots the chemist growing in your back garden but you just don't know it yet. This book features fantastically easy recipes for natural remedies and beauty treats.

In this text, Anna Newton explains the advantages of using herbs, and provides herbal remedies to cure common ailments, and improve general health. She provides easy to follow advice on creating your own apothecary with a small number of versatile herbs.

Take charge of your health and wellness naturally with tried-and-tested plant-based home remedies. Discover the therapeutic properties of over 140 medicinal herbs such as turmeric, elderflower and ginger root with the 'Herbal Remedies Handbook'. Browse through the fully illustrated expert advice and know-how, including crucial safety and dosage information. Discover at-a-glance home remedies for more than 50 common conditions, including headaches, hay fever, and the symptoms of menopause.

Long before the first pharmaceutical companies opened their doors in the 1850s, doctors treated people, not symptoms. And although we've become used to popping pills, patients have finally had it with the dangerous side effects, addiction and over-prescribing - and they're desperate for an alternative. Here's the good news: that alternative has been here all along in the form of ancient treatments used for eons in traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic and Greek medicine. 'Ancient Remedies for Modern Life' is a comprehensive layman's guide that brings together and explains to the masses the very best of these time-tested practices.

'Root to Stem' is a seasonal and holistic approach to health that puts plants, herbs and nature at the heart of how we live and eat. It is a new kind of guide that links individual health to our communities and the planet's health to sustain us all. The perfect companion to the seasons, this book will show you how to take greater control over your own health and wellbeing, treat everyday ailments, and ensure the sustainability of the planet through discovering how to forage, grow, or shop for plant- and herb-based foods and products.