Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies

Grow Just What Your Body Needs

Plant a garden for health with these 23 herb combinations customized to your personal wellness. Clinical herbalist Maria Noel Groves provides guidance on growing a small collection of carefully curated herbs, along with recipes for remedies that use your homegrown harvest to support better sleep, a healthy heart, good digestion – or whatever your body requires.

Introduction: At the Garden Gate

Part One: Skills for Making Medicine
1 Growing, Harvesting, and Preserving
2  Mastering Basic Remedies
  Tea
  Tinctures
  Alcohol-Free Extracts and Sweet Remedies
  Powders
  Earthly Aromatherapy
  Topical Remedies
  Dilute Remedies

Part Two: Remedy Gardens
3  Daily Tonics
   Nutritive Garden
   Nutritive Forager
   The Flavor Garden
4  Energy and Relaxation
   Stress Relief
   Brain Boosters
   Uplift
   Relax and Restore
   Sleepy Time
5  Digestion and Detoxification
   Bitter Digestif
   Carminatives
   Tummy Soothers
   Detox Forager
6  Immune and Respiratory
   Immune SOS
   Lung Tonics
   Allergy and Sinus
7  Skin Care and First Aid
   Super Skin
   First Aid
   Insect Repellent and Bite Care
8  Pain Relief
   Topical Pain Relief
   Aches and Pains
9  Heart and Love
   Gladden the Heart
   Get the Blood Moving
   The Woman's Garden

Part Three: Healing Garden Herbs
   Herb Profiles

Appendices
   Commonly Used Herbs by Condition
   Commonly Used Flower Essences by Condition
   Herbs for Specific Climates
   Measurements and Metric Conversions
   Resources
   Further Reading
Index