Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies

By Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal

“A great addition to the herbal identification books, with full-color photos of plants, along with usage, dosage, and recipes.” —Library Journal

Modern medicine is truly a blessing. Advances are made with astonishing speed every day, using both science and technology to make our lives longer and healthier. But if the era of modern medicine began less than two hundred years ago, how did people treat sickness and poor health before then? This book holds the answer.

 

Researched and written by a practicing medical herbalist and natural healer, and now with even more herbs and medicinal plants, Backyard Medicine is the basis for a veritable natural pharmacy that anyone can create. Featuring more than 120 easily made herbal home remedies and fully illustrated with nearly three hundred color photographs, this book offers fascinating insights into the literary, historic, and global applications of fifty common wild plants and herbs that can be used in medicines, including: 

• Comfrey
• Dandelion
• Honeysuckle
• Yarrow
• And so much more!

Anyone who wants to improve his or her health in a completely natural way will find this book to be an absolute must-have for his or her home—and garden.

“Backyard Medicine is a wonderful book that all herbalists need.” —David Hoffman, BSc, FNIMH, medical herbalist

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: May 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781510748064

Julie Bruton-Seal

Julie Bruton-Seal is a herbalist, iridologist and cranio-sacral therapist. A Fellow of the Association of Master Herbalists (AMH), she is also an artist, jeweller, graphic designer, cook and gardener. Her parents are the well-known wildlife filmmakers and photographers Des and Jen Bartlett. Julie and husband Matthew teach courses and workshops in herbal medicine, foraging and distilling.

Reviews for Backyard Medicine

[renardkitsune · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is very in-depth about each plant it covers. I wish the section "Using your Herbal Harvest" was a little more specific on how to make different, things, such as tinctures, glycerites, etcs, but they have very specific and in-depth instructions for special applications in each plant section. Beautiful color photos, and very sturdy.

[annedenney · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book, wonderful photos. Plants described are local plants rather than exotic.