If you are interested in using plants for healing the body, first look at what's growing around you, in your garden and along the routes you regularly walk or drive. Discover the therapeutic benefits of the plants with which you share your immediate environment. You'll be amazed at the potential medicines you can find everywhere from your lawn and flower borders to the veggie plot, hedgerows and beyond. The Medicine Garden guides you through when to collect and how to preserve different plants, allowing you to confidently gather ingredients and prepare your own teas, salves, syrups and tinctures to treat everyday ailments from headaches, flu and hayfever to coldsores and insect bites. Making these simple home remedies has its own satisfaction, you will feel empowered as you save money whilst lovingly crafting healing elixirs for yourself and your family. As your arsenal of natural remedies expands you will find that you use over the counter medications for minor ailments less and less. So, that when the winter wind is howling and you are coming down with flu, you don't even need to leave your front door, simply put the kettle on and take a spoonful of something you prepared earlier...
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