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Herbs
The quick and easy to use photographic guide to herbs - for novices and established enthusiasts alike This compact visual guide features the highest quality photographs, capturing the unique details of more than 700 plants used by people around the world in cooking, healing, cosmetics, and even pest control. Each herb's entry includes annotated photographs to highlight the herb's distinguishing features, colour illustrations showing a typical specimen, and the plant's natural habitat and native region to help identify it. Discover what each herb is used for, including applications in food preparation, medicine, beauty treatment, aromatherapy, and crafts, while symbols on every page detail which parts of the plant are used. The introduction covers the anatomy of a herb, reveals how herbs have been utilized throughout history, and explains how we use herbs in the modern world, from medicinal uses to the pleasures of a well-kept herb garden, making it an essential reference for anyone interested in exploring their local wilderness or cultivating herbs.
Essential Guide to Herbs
The healing properties of herbs have been known for thousands of years, yet for many of us these qualities are a mystery. Now with this handy-sized book, boasting fact-filled profiles of more than 100 different herbs, you will find a wealth of inspiring ways to incorporate herbs into your daily life. Discover how to make tinctures, tisanes, ointments and poultices, and learn the best ways to apply them to enhance your well-being – be it to soothe an anxious mind, heal a wound, or aid digestion. Find out about the different holistic uses of herbs, how to grow them and how to use them creatively to make a fragrant haven of your home. Illustrated by one or more stunning full-color photographs, each herb is presented within a carefully structured directory, grouped according to therapeutic qualities. Fascinating information is included about the herbs’ traditional and cultural uses, their various healing powers for physical and spiritual well-being, and how to grow, harvest and prepare them for therapeutic use. More than just a practical manual, The Essential Guide to Herbs is an inspirational reference guide that will enrich all areas of your life.
Herbs
Everything you need to know about the world of herbs in a full color A-Z catalog of over 90 herbs, complete with detailed instructions on growing, harvesting and preserving, along with home remedies, cosmetic uses, and original recipes.
The Complete Book of Herbs
With more than 340,000 copies sold in hardcover, this essential, full-color resource is now available in paperback. Revealing the enormous potential of herbs, this sourcebook includes information on planting, growing, and harvesting herbs, as well as the main uses of herbs. It also offers an exhaustive identification guide, recipes, ideas for gifts, and much more.
A Pocket Guide to Herbs
Identifies the most common herbs, with a picture, quick reference box, and informative text for each. Includes information about the history and folklore of herbs and the traditional and contemporary use of herbs.
World of Herbs
A practical guide to using herbs in cooking, cosmetics, health, and home decoration. Explores each plant -- presents oils, recipes -- appetizers to desserts; -- potions and remedies, tips on gardening and aromatic uses, history and folklore, more. Scattered line drawings.
The Essential Guide to Herbs
This third entry in the successful Essential Handbook series squeezes a wealth of fascinating information about herbs into a pocket-sized package. Over 100 life-enriching herbs are catalogued, with comprehensive reference information for each, including its Latin name, traditional uses, optimal growing conditions, and benefits to the body and mind. More than just a practical manual, it also describes key ways to incorporate any herb into daily life, whether dried in a therapeutic sachet, soaked to form a skin-soothing compress, or infused to make an uplifting tisane.
The Herbalist in the Kitchen
The foodie's ultimate herbal encyclopedia Created as the ideal reference for anyone with a serious interest in cooking with herbs, spices, or related plant materials, The Herbalist in the Kitchen is truly encyclopedic in scope. It provides complete information about the uses, botany, toxicity, and flavor chemistry of herbs, as well as a listing for nearly every name that an ingredient is known by around the world. Even including herbs and spices not yet seen in the United States (but likely to be featured in recipes for adventurous cooks soon), The Herbalist in the Kitchen is organized into one hundred and four sections, each consisting of a single botanical family. The book provides all ava...
