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Herbal Medicine for Beginners is your everyday reference for common ailments using 35 popular herbs.You don't need to buy hundreds of hard-to-find herbs to start your journey with herbal medicine. Herbal Medicine for Beginners shows you how to use a few important herbs to promote the body's ability to fight infection and heal naturally.Herbal Medicine for Beginners shows herbalists-in-training how to use a limited number of versatile, medicinal herbs to craft herbal remedies for common ailments. From allergies to fevers to headaches, beginners will gain the essential knowledge they need to blossom into natural healers and practice herbal medicine.Herbal Medicine for Beginners teaches you how to use herbs as preventative and restorative medicine with:Herbal Medicine 101 provides step-by-step instruction on how to shop for, make, and apply herbal medicine effectivelyProfiles on Popular Herbs teach you how to choose the right herbs for your herbal medicine collection100 Herbal Remedies for Common Ailments with easy-to-follow instructions to safely make remedies at homeLearn how to detox with dandelion, beat stress with linden, soothe burns with marshmallow and much more with remedies for common ailments in Herbal Medicine for Beginners.
About the Author
Katja Swift is an herbalist, teacher, and a co-founder of the CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism. One of the few wife & husband teams in the herbal world, Katja and her husband Ryn Midura see clients and teach Foundational, Advanced, and Clinical herbalism programs both in-person and online, as well as a program for pharmacy students at Boston's pharmacy schools. Together, they speak at national conferences, and write for publications like the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild. They are trained as street medics and Wilderness First Responders, and collaborate with peers from around the country to bring herbalism to communities impacted by natural and man-made disasters. They live in Boston, Massachusetts, with Katja's daughter and as many plants and animals as will fit in a small city apartment.
