Author: Lesley Bremness
Publisher: Watkins
Keywords: herbs, happiness, healing, essential, guide
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2012-02-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1907486828
ISBN-13: 9781907486821
At once informative, engaging, and inspirational, this concise guide covers more than 100 of today’s most important herbs. They’re grouped according to their therapeutic qualities, with each entry featuring the herb’s Latin name, traditional uses, optimal growing conditions, and ways it can benefit body, mind, and spirit. Readers get expert guidance on harvesting their own herbs, and easy ideas for integrating herbs into daily life, from healing sachets to herbal infusions.
Author: Lesley Bremne
Publisher: Studio
Keywords: herbs, growing, using, guide, practical, book, complete
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0140238026
ISBN-13: 9780140238020
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.
Author: Beth Hanso
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garde
Keywords: herbs, table, garden, classic, gourmet, unusual
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1889538213
ISBN-13: 9781889538211
Written by acclaimed herb experts, this handsome and fact-packed compendium is a don’t-miss for both gardeners and cooks. Not only does it feature the classic culinary herbs, but also the up-and-coming and hard-to-obtain varieties at the heart of the new international cuisine. From epazote (used in Mexican and Southwestern entrees), to fenugreek (an essential in Middle Eastern dishes), these plants go beyond the purely ornamental to bring you fresh, exciting tastes and aromas. Assure yourself of having a plentiful supply by following the tips on starting herbs from seed, growing them in
Authors:Thomas DeBaggio, Arthur O. Tucker,
Publisher: Timber Press
Keywords: herbs, fragrance, flavor, comprehensive, encyclopedia, reference
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 2009-09-16
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0881929948
ISBN-13: 9780881929942
This meticulously researched compendium provides every aspect of growing, identifying, harvesting, preserving, and using more than 500 species of herbs. Thorough profiles provide a plant’s botanical name and family, whether it is an annual or perennial, its height, hardiness, light requirements, water consumption, required soil type, and pH. The often fascinating history of the plant, the chemistry of its essential oils, and its culinary, landscape, and craft uses are also included, as is advice on how to propagate. For the first edition of their work, both authors received The Gertrude
Author: Marcello Spinella
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: herbs, psychological, neurological, problems, treating, medicinal, handbook, psychoactive, concise
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2005-02-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0789018586
ISBN-13: 9780789018588
Find out how plant-derived drugs react with your brain to produce either healing or harmful results!The Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs will give you a better understanding of herbal products that have psychological effects. The book explores how they work, how effective they are, and what is known about their safety. Geared towards non-specialist professionals and curious individuals, this guide shows how herbal preparations can affect the brain, mental state, and behavior of a user and includes treatment methods, tables, illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography.The Concise Handbo
Author: James A. Duke PhD
Publisher: Rodale Books
Keywords: herbs, boost, energy, lengthen, proof, life, disease, essential, vital, need, duke
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2000-09-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1579543405
ISBN-13: 9781579543402
Dr. Duke attributes his long, healthy life of more than 70 years to a combination of good genes, good diet, and good luck-and to 13 specific herbal supplements. In Dr. Duke’s Essential Herbs, this unchallenged leader in the field of herbs shares his list of the 13 herbs he believes will help almost anyone, regardless of age, improve and maintain their health. Not just a collection of trendy supplements, this is the personal prescription of "America’s herbal laureate." He provides information about each of the supplements, along with herbal combinations, stories, native lore, and do
Authors:Lyle E. Craker, James E. Simo,
Publisher: Food Products Pre
Keywords: herbs, plants, medicinal, spices, pharmacology, horticulture, recent, advances, botany
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 1991-06-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 156022018X
ISBN-13: 9781560220183
As in previous volumes, readers will find a multidisciplinary forum for communicating knowledge related to the botany, horticulture, and pharmacology of herbs, spices, and medicinal plants. While magical and mystical powers have been associated with these plants through the ages, continued investigations in such areas as production, nomenclature, uses, chemical constitution, and dynamics help elucidate the affiliated chemical and physical processes that contribute to their unique flavor, fragrance, pharmacological, and other bioactive properties. This collection of articles examines the potent
