Healing Herbs: Your Plain & Simple Guide to Plant-Based Remedies for Common Ailments

Your Plain & Simple Guide to More Than 100 Plant-Based Remedies and Recipes for Common Ailments

Traditional herbalist Marlene Houghton helps readers tackle everyday ailments and takes the guesswork out of using herbs for optimal health. Herbal medicine is useful for a range of common complaints, and gentle and effective herbs can offer benefit where conventional medicine sometimes fails. There have been many books written on herbal medicine. This book stands out because it is based on empowering you to take responsibility for your own health and well-being.

Included in this concrete and practical primer are all the essentials you need to know about healing herbs and their properties:

• A brief history of herbalism
• Recipes for aromatic herb baths, teas, tonics, and elixirs
• An overview of how herbs heal
• A glossary that includes the benefits of each herb and how to use it
• A tour of the body’s systems and the herbs that make them work better
• An herb dictionary

In a world that’s becoming more and more focused on illness and disease, it is clearly important for individuals to learn about natural therapies and take an active role in maintaining their own health. By educating yourself in the use of traditional herbalism, you can attain a high level of well-being independently.

This title was previously published as Herbs Plain & Simple.

Marlene Houghton, PhD, has always been interested in natural health therapies, having studied herbalism (phytotherapy), holistic nutrition, and related natural therapies. She has over twenty years of experience working in orthodox medical settings in top London teaching hospitals. She is a nutritional therapist and a traditional herbalist as well as a nutrition consultant for a well-known group of health stores. She regularly contributes articles on traditional herbalism and aromatherapy to Echo World, a mind, body, and spirit magazine.