Grow Your Own Medicine

Grow Your Own Medicine

GROW your own MEDICINE
A guide to growing health-giving plants in your own backyard.

Create an organic medicine cabinet in your own backyard with this step-by-step guide to growing and using plant superfoods.

The medicinal powers of herbs, vegetables and fruits have been revered for thousands of years. This practical guide shows you how to grow and use these plants to prevent diseases, treat everyday ailments and promote general good health.

More than sixty plants and their properties are discussed in detail, from echinacea to fight colds and boost the immune system to cabbage to ward off cancer. You will learn their medicinal properties, how best to administer them - in teas, tinctures, compresses, poultices and more - and, of course, how to grow and prepare them for use.

Whether you have a small vegie patch or a room in a courtyard for a few pots, this book will show you how easy it is to create an organic medicine cabinet in your own backyard.

Mim Beim is a highly respected nutritionist and naturopath. She graduated from Nature Care College with the nutrition prize in 1988 and has since helped to create two TV series on Foxtel (LifeForce), as well as appearing on many TV shows, including Fresh. Mim was also the Triple J naturopath and frequently appears on ABC radio.

A regular contributor to Life Etc., Good Health & Medicine, the Sun Herald and Family Circle, Mim has also been a consultant to Liptons, Nokia and Big Brother, and nowadays gives workshops to groups, including corporations and government departments, on the effects of stress and how to deal with it.

Mim is the past Head of Naturopathy for the Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS), Australia's leading society for natural medicine, and currently lectures at the Australasian School of Natural Therapies in Sydney.

Grow Your Own Medicine
Harper Collins Australia
Author: Mim Beim
ISBN: 9780733328046
Price: $27.99