About this item
Taking medicine just got a whole lot sweeter! Honey is well known for its healing properties. When infused with the additional benefits of medicinal herbs and fruits, it turns natural remedies that can be unpleasant tasting into a treat to take. Author Dawn Combs makes these traditional herbal honeys - called "electuaries" - and has created her own formulations for addressing a variety of common health ailments. With Sweet Remedies, readers will learn her methods for making electuaries in their home kitchens, using recipes that range from Ache Ease and Sleep Well to Heartful and Calcium for Kids, along with instructions for making simple honey infusions and oxymels - a combination of herbs, honey, and vinegar. Additional recipes offer creative ways to get a daily dose of healing by using herbal honeys in no-bake cookies, smoothies, cocktails, candies, and more.
About the Author
Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and homestead herbalist with over 20 years of experience. She lives here in Central Ohio with her husband Carson and her children, Aidan and Jacy. Dawn is an educator and an online and in-print contributor to Mother Earth Living, Mother Earth and Hobby Farms magazines, and travels the country speaking about botanical wellness and health sufficiency. She is co-owner of the herbal health farm Mockingbird Meadows and is also the director of its educational programs available at . Dawn is the author of Heal Local, 20 Essential Herbs for Do-it-Yourself Home Healthcare (New Society, 2015) and Conceiving Healthy Babies (New Society, 2014) .
