Description

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With The Herbal Apothecary, you can enhance your life and your health -- naturally.
Inside you'll find:

• Profiles of over 150 herbs and essential oils, including their uses, common therapeutic properties and benefits, precautions, recipes, and applications.
• Beautiful full-color photographs will help you identify each plant.
• How to use essential oils and plants in your daily life by devising your own oil blends, making salves and soaps, and preparing infusions, tinctures, and compresses for every kind of ailment.
• Historical usage and modern applications for timeless medicinal plants, from humble weeds and kitchen herbs to exotic berries, leaves, and resins.

Herbs have long intrigued us -- and for good reason. Because of their potential as food and as medicine, they have enjoyed a special relationship with humans throughout the ages. This book will familiarize you with their medicinal benefits and how you can use them in your daily life.