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Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies  R180
David Hoffmann
New jacket edition of this classic herbal by internationally renowned herbalist David Hoffman. Easy to use, the herbal is hugely popular with herbalists and laypeople worldwide. The Holistic Herbal covers everything you need to know about growing, gathering, preparing, using and taking herbal medicines to improve and maintain health. With simple b/w line drawn herb illustrations throughout, the book is extremely attractive and contains:-
a simple introduction to health, well-being and how your body works.
a guide to specific health problems and concerns (you don't need to be sick to take a herbal cure!) and 'which herb' for a range of conditions.
A-Z herbal, covering over 200 different medicinal herbs and plants.
This section comprises the main part of the book and is full of detailed information about each herb.

The Essential Herbs Handbook  R145
more than 100 herbs for well-being, healing and happiness
By : Lesley Bremness

This book explores the role of herbs in traditional cultures and offers guidance on growing, maintaining and harvesting herbs. It also explains key ways to integrate just about any herb into your daily life.

Essential Herbal Wisdom: A Complete Exploration of 50 Remarkable Herbs R430
by: Nancy Arrowsmith 
Popular author and healing practitioner Nancy Arrowsmith takes readers on a fascinating in-depth exploration of the herbal arts. Arrowsmith's friendly voice and vast knowledge of herbal applications, history, and folklore shine through in this herbalism reference work.
As entertaining as it is practical, this comprehensive illustrated herb guide covers everything from herb gathering prayers and charms to signatures for fifty powerful herbs. Each herb is described in detail, with tips on growing, gathering, drying, and storing these marvelous plants, as well as their culinary virtues, cosmetic properties, medicinal merits, veterinary values, and household applications.
Along with thought-provoking bits of folk history and literary and spiritual references to herbs and nature, this directory includes step-by-step instructions on cooking with herbs and preparing herbal remedies, as well as gardening hints and seed-saving tips.

Medicinal Plants of South Africa  2nd EditionMedicinal Plants of South Africa 2nd Edition R330
Ben-Erik van Wyk, Bosch van Oudtshoorn & Nigel Gericke
A photographic guide to the most commonly used and best known South African plant medicines, including their botany, main traditional uses and active ingredients. 
This Second Edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest research findings. The book includes: 
Detailed species descriptions of more than 150 medicinal plants and their close relatives, or other species used in a similar way. Each entry includes the following information: a description of the plant, the plant parts used, medicinal uses, preparation and dosage, active ingredients and pharmacological effects. 
In addition, each entry includes a distribution map and a diagram of the chemical structure of the main active ingredient 
More than 500 excellent photographs of the plants, plant parts used and products 
Introductory chapters on, among others, cultural aspects of healing, methods of collection and storage, methods of preparation and administration 
A plant list according to ailments 
A glossary, detailed index and comprehensive references for further reading 
This remarkable book is a must for anyone with an interest or involvement in health care and botany. 

The Organic Gardeners Handbook  R310
by Frank Tozer
An expert’s advice on the art and science of organic gardening.
The Organic Gardeners Handbook tells you everything you need to know to create a highly productive vegetable garden. Combining European tradition with American creativity, it covers the art and science of organic gardening with a depth that is rarely seen in contemporary books. There are chapters on every aspect of organic vegetable gardening, soil dynamics, soil management, cultivation, composting, crop planning, raising seedlings, watering, harvesting, seed saving, greenhouses, and much more. Whether you are a complete novice and need your hand held through every step, or a veteran gardener with a permanent layer of soil under your fingernails, you will find this book both helpful and informative. 

Aromatherapy  R280
A Complete Guide to the Healing Art 
by Kathi Keville, Mindy Green
A comprehensive guide to using essential oils in health, beauty, and well-being.
Aromatherapy offers countless uses, from cosmetics to therapeutics for balancing body, mind, and spirit. Drawing on 75 combined years of experience in botanical therapies, Keville and Green update their complete guide with the latest information for aromatherapy practitioners and students, providing an invaluable resource that includes more than 90 formulas for using essential oils in health and first aid, skin and hair care, massage, relaxation, and more.

Health from God's Garden R200
Herbal Remedies for Glowing Health and Well-Being
By Maria Treben
In this accessible guide, a world -renowned herbalist with sixty years of experience unlocks the health secrets that made her famous in Europe, where millions regained health and well-being from her herbal remedies. 
Clearly written and logically organised for easy use, this herbal has an alphabetical listing of illnesses and suggested remedies, with herbal recipes included. 

Jude's Herbal Home Remedies: Natural Health, Beauty & Home-Care Secrets  R200
by: Jude Todd 

Discover a simpler, more natural way of life. Pour yourself a cup of chamomile tea, find a quiet corner, and browse through the wealth of natural remedies, household tips, and beauty secrets presented in this tried and true guidebook. Now updated and expanded, Jude's Herbal Home Remedies offers more than 800 treatments, tinctures, tonics, and teas, using many easy-to-find herbs, as well as a comprehensive herbal index with over 200 illustrations.

 Healing With Herbs 
Simple Treatments For More Than 100 Common Ailments
Penelope Ody

Join one of the world's leading herbalists for a comprehensive course in the healing power of everyday herbs. Penelope Ody has consolidated generations of herbal knowledge into a practical, step-by-step guide to natural healing for the whole family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Healing Power of Herbs: The Enlightened Person's Guide to the Wonders of Medicinal Plants
Michael T. Murray 

A Modern Herbal: How to grow, cook and use herbs   R90

 

Edible Flowers; from garden to kitchen: choosing, growing and cooking flowers

by Kathy Brown  R215

Healing Herbs & Health Foods of the Zodiac

Ada Muir R40

The New Herb Bible: How to use herbs to revolutionise the way you work, play, sleep,feel and heal.

Earl Mindell  R150

Herbal Prescriptions for Health & Healing: Your everyday guide to using herbs safely and effectively

Donald J Brown, N.D.  R120

Herbs of Britain

Bob Press R60

A small but informative book of 150 herbs, most of which are available here, with illustrations and uses. A good buy.

 

Male Herbal: The Definitive Health Care Book for Men & Boys 
2nd Edition 
by James Green  R180
In this long-awaited second edition of THE MALE HERBAL, James Green gives men and boys the tools they need to create or maintain physical and emotional health through a customized herbal program. By following Green’s newly developed constitutional model and referencing the comprehensive alphabetical herbal listings, men can create an herbal program attuned to their unique body type, lifestyle, and health needs. Featuring life-changing information about common plants, herbal alternatives to Viagra, medicinal uses of herbs for male-specific issues, and nearly thirty recipes for teas, tinctures, salves, and tonics, this updated guide emphasizes prevention and health with sensitivity and wisdom.

Medicinal Plants of the world

Ben-Erik van Wyk & Michael Wink  temp  out of stock

My herb bible

A comprehensive and scientifically accurate guide to the best known and most important medicinal plants, including those of special commercial or historic interest. 

The Book of Herbs: An Illustrated A-Z of the World's most popular Culinary & Medicinal Herbs

Barty Phillips  R120

Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual 
by James Green  R320

THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER’S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE MALE HERBAL. Writing in a delightfully personal and down-home style, Green emphasizes the point that herbal medicine-making is fundamental to every culture on the planet and is accessible to everyone. So, first head into the garden and learn to harvest your own herbs, and then head into your kitchen and whip up a batch of raspberry cough syrup, or perhaps a soothing elixir to erase the daily stresses of modern life. 

 

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