An invaluable guide to growing your garden and herbal first-aid kit from herbs, flowers, and foraged weeds.

Medicinal herbs aren't just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Healing Garden is the perfect guide to revitalizing your health with ingredients you can grow and forage yourself.

From edible treats to therapeutic remedies, unearth the healing potential of plants both wild and cultivated. This stylishly illustrated book features forty herb profiles and seven medicinal weeds ideal for foraging, plus instructions on how to set up and maintain a planted or container garden.

You'll learn to develop the healing power of your very own medicinal garden, with edible recipes for cakes, cookies, salads, soups, teas, and many more. This practical guide also features easy, natural remedies for your skin, gut, muscles, heart, and mind with recipes for oils, tinctures, compresses, steams, and washes for health and healing.

An engaging, beautiful compendium of medicinal and culinary herbs . . . Written with passion and grace, the book evokes memories of the scent of sun-warmed earth and dreams of bountiful harvests. Lucy Mora's eye-catching illustrations enhance the text with bright splashes of color, aid in plant recognition, and inspire the use of medicinal and culinary herbs to bring beauty and diversity to any garden . . . Practical and inspiring.—ForeWord Reviews