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Product Description Nurture and Heal with Nature’s Herbal Wonders This complete guide will get you growing, harvesting, using, and healing with herbs — the world’s oldest and most effective natural medicines. Popular health writer Dr. Michelle Schoffro Cook profiles thirty-one common and easy-to-grow (or readily available) herbs, sharing scientific discoveries about their usefulness and offering more than one hundred easy ways to use them in delicious recipes, healing teas, and soothing body treatments. With Be Your Own Herbalist, you’ll discover ways to delight body and mind as you incorporate Mother Nature’s medicines into daily life, where they nurture and protect. Review Michelle Schoffro Cook’s books are my health bibles. If you want glowing, vibrant health, let brilliant Michelle be your guide.” Kris Carr, author of Crazy Sexy Diet Dr. Michelle Schoffro Cook’s work is unique, empowering, informative, and guides us toward a healthy future. I highly recommend her work and books.” Mallika Chopra, founder, Intent.com An essential guide for anyone who wants to bring the power of herbs into their life!” Beverley Gray, herbalist and natural health practitioner Dr. Cook does a great job of breaking herbalism down into tangible steps that allow you to start playing with plants confidently, right away. You don’t have to be an expert to be an at-home, practical herbalist, and this book will show you how.” from the foreword by Angela and Yarrow Willard, clinical herbalists About the Author Michelle Schoffro Cook is an internationally bestselling author, a certified herbalist, a board-certified doctor of natural medicine, and one of the world’s most popular natural health bloggers. She holds advanced degrees in health, nutrition, orthomolecular nutrition, and acupuncture. She lives near Vancouver, BC. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Be Your Own Herbalist Essential Herbs for Health, Beauty, and Cooking By Michelle Schoffro Cook, Peggy Duke New World Library Copyright © 2016 Michelle Schoffro Cook All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60868-424-3 Contents Foreword by Yarrow and Angela Willard, PART 1: Everything You Need to Get Started, Chapter 1:Your Guide to Being Your Own Herbalist, Chapter 2:Using Herbs: Know Your Infusions from Your Decoctions, PART 2: Discovering Nature's Herbal Wonders, Chapter 3:Basil (Ocimum basilicum), Chapter 4:Calendula (Calendula officinalis), Chapter 5:Chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile, Matricaria chamomilla, Matricaria recutita), Chapter 6:Chives (Allium schoenoprasum), Chapter 7:Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum), Chapter 8:Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), Chapter 9:Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea angustifolia), Chapter 10:Elecampane (Inula helenium), Chapter 11:Feverfew (Tanacetum spp.), Chapter 12:Garlic (Allium sativum), Chapter 13:Ginger (Zingiber officinale), Chapter 14:Horsetail (Equisetum arvense), Chapter 15:Juniper (Juniperus communis), Chapter 16:Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), Chapter 17:Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis), Chapter 18:Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), Chapter 19:Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), Chapter 20:Mullein (Verbascum thapsus), Chapter 21:Nettles (Urtica dioica), Chapter 22:Oregano (Origanum vulgare), Chapter 23:Parsley (Petroselinum sativum), Chapter 25:Plantain (Plantago major), Chapter 26:Red Clover (Trifolium pratense), Chapter 27:Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), Chapter 28:Sage (Salvia officinalis), Chapter 29:St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum), Chapter 30:Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus, Artemisia dracunculoides), Chapter 31:Thyme (Thymus vulgaris), Chapter 32:Valerian (Valeriana officinalis), Chapter 33:Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), Appendix: A Word to the Wise about Mainstream Herbal Reporting, Notes, Resources, Acknowledgments, Index, About the Author, CHAPTER 1 Your Guide to Being Your Own Herbalist I did not know that an uneventful spring day almost twenty
