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by: James Green  List Price: $22.95 Amazon.com's Price: $15.61 You Save: $7.34 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 615.321 EAN: 9780895949905 Edition: illustrated edition Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0895949903 Label: Crossing Press Manufacturer: Crossing Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: December 30, 2000 Publisher: Crossing Press Studio: Crossing Press Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This guide to the kitchen pharmacy discusses the entire process of preparing herbal medicines at home, from methods of growing, gathering, and drying herbs to different ways of extracting their vital essences and making healing balms, lotions, and more. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The Herbal Medicine Maker's HandbookA lot of great information, tips. and how to do different things. Book arrived in wonderful condition and in a timely manner. Rating: - Medicine-making made simple........Have you ever come in from the garden on one of those balmy days when the sun is "just right" neither too hot nor too cold, but warm enough to draw the aroma from your flowers, and thought to yourself, "I would love to preserve that smell for a rainy day." Well, you can by bottling tonics, elixirs, hydrosols, syrups and other concoctions that upon opening in the middle of winter, have the power to transport back to summer days, and perhaps even cure the nasty cold or flu affecting you, or even better, ... Read More Rating: - A must for any serious herbalist!James Green's "The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook : A Home Manual" is one of my new favorite books on herbal forumlation. Green makes the subject not only easy to understand but he talks to the reader in such a way that makes the subject extremely accessable. Green has taken all the percieved diffuclty or mystery out of making your own medicines. I keep my copy right next to my herb cabinet where I can get right at it! Rating: - Very informativeFinally a book that takes the magic of herbalism and adds a healthy dose of structure, science and common sense. As a beginning herbalist, I find the information contained in the book extremely useful and not found in many other places. This book has earned its place on my favorite list. Rating: - Far more in-depth than your usual herbal recipe bookThe Herbal Medicine-Makers Handbook blends the herbalist author's natural home remedies with his perspectives on the art of herbal medicine's applications, with recipes for folk extractions including plenty of recommendations for usage. The result is far more in-depth than your usual herbal recipe book, packed with insights on how to extract herbs, make tinctures, and apply them properly. 
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