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Author : Bremness, Lesley,Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Cookery (Herbs)
ISBN : 0888505523
Author : Editors at Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781621453154
This beautifully illustrated, complete guide to herbs unlocks the secrets of these wonder plants—from planting and harvesting to cooking and storing—including their health benefits. Now you can discover the joy and pleasure of growing your own herbs—for spicing up meals, creating crafts, treating ailments, and more. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated herbal guide you’ll find information on their history, cultivation, propagation, and harvesting, along with a wealth of great ideas for using herbs everyday in a variety of ways. This guide unravels the mysteries of these versatile plants, with savvy tips and simple formulas for maximizing their powers. Did you know? · Mint can repel ants, flies, mice, and moths · Garlic can seriously lower cholesterol · Chives, fennel, tarragon, thyme, oregano, and winter savory are perennials · Rosemary was used in the Middle Ages for its tranquilizing effects, and it is still a digestion aid Known for alleviating common ailments, herbs are an ancient natural wonder—herbs are hotter than ever. Extremely informative and fascinating, this book will help you find which herb can treat various complaints. Throughout the guide are instructions for bursting-with-flavor recipes, health-care products, decorative craft ideas, insect repellents, cosmetics, cleaning agents, and much more.
Author : Claire Loewenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cooking (Herbs)
ISBN : LCCN:10087085
Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781621455493
A full color illustrated guide to growing and using herbs to enhance your health and your cooking. This beautifully illustrated, complete guide to herbs unlocks the secrets of these wonder plants—from planting and harvesting to cooking and storing—including their health benefits. Now you can discover the joy and pleasure of growing your own herbs—for spicing up meals, creating crafts, treating ailments, and more. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated herbal guide you’ll find information on their history, cultivation, propagation, and harvesting, along with a wealth of great ideas for using herbs everyday in a variety of ways. This guide unravels the mysteries of these versatile plants, with savvy tips and simple formulas for maximizing their powers. Did you know? · Mint can repel ants, flies, mice, and moths · Garlic can seriously lower cholesterol · Chives, fennel, tarragon, thyme, oregano, and winter savory are perennials · Rosemary was used in the Middle Ages for its tranquilizing effects, and it is still a digestion aid
Author : Carol Ann Rinzler
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0816041520
Lists over one hundred herbs, spices, and condiments, providing information on their nutritional profile, benefits, possible side effects, chemical makeup, and various uses.
Author : Tamara Kircher,Jade Britton
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Herbs
ISBN : 1552091767
Discusses the therapeutic use of herbs for a variety of ailments, with information on selecting ingredients and preparing remedies.
Author : Terry Breverton
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781623653507
Breverton's Complete Herbal is a modern reworking of Culpeper's classic reference guide, Culpeper's Complete Herbal. Arranged alphabetically, this book describes over 250 herbs and spices as well as feature entries on scented herb/medicinal gardens, the great herbalists and New World Herbs not included in Culpepper's original text. Each entry provides a description of the herb: its appearance and botanical features, a brief history of its uses in medicine, dyeing and cuisine to bizarre remedies and concoctions designed to get rid of all manner of real and imaginary ailments. As informative as it is entertaining, this incredibly diverse compendium contains just about everything you'll ever need to know about the properties and provenance of herbs and spices of the world. From amara dulcis to yarrow, all-heal to viper's bugloss, Breverton's Complete Herbal is a modern day treasury of over 250 herbs and their uses.
Author : S. Theresa Dietz
Publisher : Wellfleet
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781577154129
The Complete Language of Herbs is a comprehensive and definitive dictionary/reference presenting the history, symbolic meaning, and visual depiction of over 500 herbs and spices from around the world in one volume—now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go reference.
Author : Lesley Bremness
Publisher : DK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0744059089
The quick and easy photographic guide to herbs of the world--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, color illustrations showing a typical specimen of the plant or tree, 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 an 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 forest or cultivating herbs.
Author : John Lust
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780486794785
More than 2,000 complete and concise descriptions of herbs, illustrated by more than 275 line drawings, offer natural aids to health and happiness. Includes tips on growing, botanical medicine, seasoning, and much more.
Author : Prevention Magazine Editors
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 042515226X
Readers get the health information they need fast. The quick-reference Cure Finder is the key to this book--the reader just looks up a health problem, and finds dozens of remedies to try. It's easy to use, easy to understand, and offers a wealth of new hope for hundreds of conditions and diseases.
Author : Lesley Bremness
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cookery (Herbs)
ISBN : 0140238026
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 : Jeff Carpenter,Melanie Carpenter
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781603585743
A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan Both a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western herbs. Whether you’re trying to farm medicinal plants, culinary herbs, or at-risk native herbs exclusively or simply add herbal crops to what you’re already growing, successful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter will guide you through the entire process—from cultivation to creating value-added products. Using their Zack Woods Herb Farm in Vermont as a backdrop, the Carpenters cover all the basic practical information farmers need to know to get an organic herb farm up and running, including: • Size and scale considerations; • Layout and design of the farm and facilities; • Growing and cultivation information, including types of tools; • Field and bed prep; • Plant propagation; • Weed control, and pests and diseases; • Harvesting, as well as wild harvesting and the concept of geo-authentic botanicals; • Postharvest processing; and, • Value-added products and marketing. The authors also provide fifty detailed plant profiles, going deeper into the herbs every farmer should consider growing. In an easy-to-understand, practical, and comprehensive manner, readers will learn how to focus on quality over quantity, and keep costs down by innovating with existing equipment, rather than expensive technology.Market farmers who have never before considered growing medicinal herbs will learn why it’s more important to produce these herbs domestically. The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer makes a convincing case that producing organic medicinal herbs can be a viable, profitable, farming enterprise. The Carpenters also make the case for incorporating medicinal herbs into existing operations, as it can help increase revenue in the form of value-added products, not to mention improve the ecological health of farmland by encouraging biodiversity as a path toward greater soil health.
Author : Diana Craig,Sarah Harris
Publisher : Modus Vivendi Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 2921556413
A superb guide to all aspects of herbs, "The Companion Book Of Herbs" shows how to grow, harvest, prepare and cook herbs. This full color book contains everything readers wish to know about the use of herbs. It contains information, guidelines and step-by-step projects for health, beauty and decorative uses for herbs. To make it more complete, it also contains a full directory of herbs and their uses.
Author : Sarah Garland
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cookery (Herbs)
ISBN : 0711223742
A beautifully illustrated and researched exploration of herbs and spices: their history, cultivation and uses, both familiar and forgotten. The comprehensive modern herbal lists nearly 300 plants and is complemented by delicate botanical watercolours. Instructions on growing and harvesting herbs, whether in a garden or a window box, are supplemented with practical applications: herbs in cooking, natural cosmetics, herbal remedies and other household uses - dyes, soaps, potpourris and pomanders. The book is illustrated throughout with more than 300 specially commissioned color photographs and step-by-step diagrams. Sarah Garland's original approach and familiarity with the plants she describes make this a book to be used, enjoyed and treasured.
