Your new favourite herbal book! Why will The Boreal Herbal be your favourite? It’s packed full of so much easy, useable information! I just love thumbing through it and looking at all the colour photographs of the plants and the things you can do with them. If you’re just starting out in using herbs then […]
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February is Heart Month. There have been various studies that have come out over the years in the media about how animals… pets… affect your health for the better. So we thought “Heart Month” would be a good time to think about our beloved pets, and learn how we may be able to improve the […]
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One of the books… well actually two of the books… that I love to go through is A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve. This two book series covers a LOT of herbs. While I wouldn’t rely on it exclusively as a resource for doing herbal medicine with your family, it is a wonderful pair […]
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People often ask me what herbal (also known as phytotherapy) books I recommend that have a scientific backing to them. Well this is definitely one of them. Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy by Simon Mills and Kerry Bone. While it doesn’t cover an exhaustive list of western medicinal plants, it does cover 44 of some […]
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