The Medicine Garden (black & white edition) - Paperback

by Rachel Corby (Author)

The Medicine Garden is an easy to use guide for making herbal remedies at home. The book encourages you to first look at the plants growing around you, in your garden and along the routes you regularly walk or drive. Within the pages of this book you will discover the therapeutic benefits of the plants with which you share your immediate environment. You'll be amazed at the potential medicines you can find everywhere. The Medicine Garden guides you through when to collect and how to preserve different plants; allowing you to confidently gather ingredients and create your own herbal preparations. The book initially concentrates on plants that grow close to home beginning with culinary herbs, it then features plants commonly found in the lawn, flower borders and vegetable garden. Later chapters cover plants found in hedgerows and beyond to include meadows, rivers, moorland and eventually the coast. The book features over 130 plants in all. The Medicine Garden includes growing and harvesting tips for each plant along with step by step methods for making a variety of preparations; from tinctures and infused oils to salves and vinegars. Within the individual plants description the book details which specific part of each plant, whether it is roots, bark, leaf, or fruit, is used to treat each particular ailment and condition. Learn how to treat everything from headaches and colds to anxiety and insomnia, naturally and organically, with local plants. Making these simple home remedies is empowering and has its own satisfaction, you will feel more deeply connected to your local environment as you save money whilst lovingly crafting healing elixirs for yourself and your family.

Author Biography

Rachel Corby is a plant whisperer, medicine woman and organic permaculture gardener. Rachel has been working with plants and their healing properties since having her eyes opened to the incredible healing world of plants whilst working on a volunteer project in Guatemala back in 1998. Rachel has been teaching remedy making and how to make more spiritual connections with plants since 2006. She runs workshops, online courses and retreats teaching these skills and encouraging the rewilding process. Throughout the summer you will frequently find her at festivals throughout the UK leading wild medicine walks, as she takes the greatest pleasure in opening the eyes of others to the incredible healing world of plants, just as was once done for her. Rachel currently lives in Gloucestershire, England, with her husband and a large number of beloved house plants. She tends an allotment where she grows the fruits, vegetables and herbs she uses for both food and medicine. She forages locally for the plants that she does not grow. Rachel has also authored 20 Amazing Plants & their Practical Uses and Rewild Yourself: Becoming Nature.