Herbal Healers

Need a boost Feeling a bit sickly Try some herbs Camping in a field Cooking in a wood Fallen off your bike Cant shake off the cough Itch Headache Heal yourself Many of the common plants around you are powerful medicines.In this simple and useful book of herns and potions, renowned hedgewitch Glennie Kindred shares her essential natural medicine cabinet for the first time, packing these small pages with ancient potions and lotions, salves, ointments, and simple country wisdom. An essential introductory survival and reference guide.

• First hardcover edition 1999 Revised edition Wooden Books Ltd 2006 Published by Wooden Books Ltd. 8
• For my children Jerry, Jack and May and to my partner, Brian Boothby. My thanks to the plant kingdom
• 1 The wild plants and herbs of our land have long been used for their medical properties. They are
• 3 2 an ancient system The traditional European system of medical astrology links each herb to one of
• 5 4 Many medicinal leaves, flowers and seeds can be eaten raw in salads, or straight off the plant,
• 7 6 Herbal teas are prepared either as an infusion or as a decoction. Keep a special teapot for thi
• 9 8 for external use The body readily absorbs herbs through the skin. A remedy can be given externa
• 11 10 tips and advice Herbs are best collected on a sunny morning after the dew has dried. Choose t
• 13 12 rubus fruticosus Bramble also goes by the name of Blackberry, Brambleberry, Scaldhead, Bumble
• 15 14 anthemis nobilis Also known as Roman Chamomile, Manzanilla Spanish for little apple, Maythen,
• 17 16 stellaria media Other names for Chickweed include Starweed, Starwort, Adders Mouth, Tongue Gra
• 19 18 Cleavers is also known as Sticky Willy, Goosegrass, Catchweed, Hedgeriff, Hayriffe, Robinrunin
• 21 20 Also known as The Son before the Father, Coughwort, Hall Foot, Horse Foot, Asss Foot, Foals Fo
• 23 22 taraxacum officinale Also known as Pissinthebed, Devils Milkpail, Priests Crown, Blow Ball, Ca
• 25 24 sambucus nigra Also known as Ellhorn, Ellanwood, Bore Tree, Pipe Tree, Rob Elder, Hylder, Hyla
• 27 26 foeniculum vulgare Other names for Fennel include Fenkel, Sweet Fennel and Marathon. Fennel h
• 29 28 allium sativum Sometimes also called Poor Mans Treacle, Heal All or Theriac, unearth the bulbs
• 31 30 crataegus monogyna Hawthorn is also known as May Tree, May Quick, Quickthorn, Whitethorn, Haw,
• humulus lupulus 33 32 Also known as Hop Vine, Beer Plant and Lupulus, this perennial hedgerow climbe
• 35 34 lavendula officinalis Also known as Stickadore, Spikenard, Nard, Nardus, Asarum and Elf Leaf,
• 37 36 melissa officinalis This herb also goes by the names of Sweet Balm, Balm Mint, Bee Balm, Cure
• 39 38 calendula officinalis Also known as Golds, Ruddes, Mary Gowles, Oculus Christi, Pot Marigold a
• 41 40 Other names for this herb include Meadsweet, Doll Off, Queen of the Meadows, Bridewort and Lad
• 43 42 urtica dioica urens Also known as Stinging Nettle, Common Nettle, and Netel, the hanging clu
• 45 44 rosemarinus officinalis Other names for Rosemary include Polar Plant, Compass Weed, Rosmarine
• 47 46 salvia officinalis Also known as Garden Sage, Sawge old English, Salvia, Red Sage, White Sage
• 49 48 hypericum perforatum Also known as Hypericum, Klamath Weed, Amber, Goat Weed and Tipton Weed,
• 51 50 thymus vulgaris Also known as Garden Thyme, Mother of Thyme, Thymus from old Greek, meaning co
• 53 52 achillea millefolium Other names for Yarrow include Milfoil a thousand leaves, Nose Bleed, Old
• 55 54 Borage Borago officinalis. Borage is an excellent adrenal tonic and will revive and renew
• 57 56 specifics highlighted abbreviations listed below Ald Alder p.55 Bla Blackthorn p.55 Bra Br
• 58 Lung problems Chi, Col, Fen, Gar, Hon,