Bøger af Holly Bellebuono

From tinctures to ease tummy aches to elixirs to enhance energy, making your own remedies from easy-to-find herbs can be a satisfying and pleasurable way to connect with nature and your family's health. While entering the "herb world" can be intimidating-many of today's herb books are filled with cultivation tables, harvest techniques, dye charts, and aromatherapy guidelines-The Essential Herbal for Natural Health provides a welcome entry point for those wishing to experience the beauty and simplicity of natural herbal remedies safely. By focusing on just thirteen foundation herbs, you can easily jump into the world of herbs while still creating a wide range of remedies and recipes. With something for everyone in the family-men, women, and children-these simple recipes can be made to cure coughs, calm anxiety, moisturize skin, and more.

Featuring recipes, helpful exercises, practical gardening tips, stories, and advice for creating herbal medicines, this fun hardcover book is an ideal resource for gardeners and aspiring herbalists

A celebration of the healing traditions that made yoga, acupuncture, and aromatherapy popular.The recent trend toward holistic living has heightened our national fascination with herbal remedies and less conventional therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, aromatherapy, and ethnobotany. Now, this intimate and inspiring book opens up the world of herbal medicine to those interested in learning about the history of these techniques and approaches. Women Healers of the World shares with readers an extraordinary variety of healing plants from around the world that have inspired today's ?alternative"e; medicine, as well as the stories, challenges, and triumphs of remarkable women healers from past and present?all of whom promote the use of medicinal herbs.Through this book, herbalist and author Holly Bellebuono aims to educate readers about sixteen plant-based world healing traditions and thirty women who have practiced them. Bellebuono also explores the geography, history, and medical heritage of twenty countries where these traditions originated.With thorough knowledge of the uses and effects of these healing traditions, readers can then move on to featured recipes for herbal remedies they can make in their home kitchens. Following Bellebuono's instructions, readers will produce remedies such as soothing lip balms, wound pastes, face masks, arthritis oils, relaxing bath salts, and revitalizing teas.

Explore the ancient art of formulary with award-winning herbalist Holly Bellebuono s comprehensive guide to creating effective herbal medicine