About this item
This back-to-nature reference guide details effective herbal medicines and natural remedies for digestive complaints, sore muscles, wound healing, teenage acne, allergic reactions, and much more. This book is packed with herbal wisdom, traditional use, and just the right amount of science. Gain confidence and understand how to use plant medicine in your home. Dive into the alchemy and art of herbal medicine preparations, receive safety tips, and perfect the techniques to create your own elixirs at home using the numerous recipes provided for delicious foods, herbal teas, tinctures, poultices, liniments, fomentations, herbal vinegars, salves, and oils. Scattered throughout are reflections on how bodies heal and the natural world's role in facilitating healing through connection to spirit and building community.
About the Author
Katolen Yardley, MNIMH
Katolen is a Medical Herbalist and a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, in private practice in Vancouver, BC, Canada and offers online consultations throughout North America. Her personal interest in health lies with the emotional connection to wellness and dis-ease. She specializes in women's health issues, skin dis-ease and digestive disorders and believes in the importance of accessible medicine for everyone - she provides straightforward recipes and techniques for using herbal medicine in the home, for food and for general first aid.
Katolen teaches herbal medicine courses at Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine, Pacific Rim College and is a clinic supervisor at the Dominion Herbal College. Katolen is Vice President of the Canadian Council of Herbalist Associations (CCHA) and is second term President of the Canadian Herbalist's Association of BC (CHA of BC) .
For 18 years she has appeared monthly on a nationally syndicated morning news program where she offers herbal information to the public and has been interviewed on local radio, in magazines and presented at international conferences sharing the wisdom of herbal medicine for optimal health.
Visit her websites at www.katolenyardley.com and www.alchemyelixir.com
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