The Medicinal Gardening Handbook: A Complete Guide to Growing, Harvesting, and Using Healing Herbs (Spiral Bound)

Table of Contents:
Foreword / Barbara Fahs -- Introduction: Why grow medicinal herbs in your backyard -- History of Herbal Medicine: Plants used as medicine throughout the ages -- Meet The Plants: Getting to Know Your Herbal Allies -- The 12 Cultivated Herbs -- The 12 Wild Herbs -- Cultivating the Medicinal Garden: Design, location, choosing the herbs to grow, planting, and maintenance -- Implementing the Medicinal Herb Garden -- Testing, Soil Types, and Amending Your Soil -- Plan tins; Your Garden -- Urban Medicinal Gardening: Crowing in small spaces, containers, windowsills, and on rooftops -- From Harvest to Storage: When to harvest, how to harvest, drying methods, and storage -- Harvesting -- Drying -- Storage -- Simple Herbal Medicines & Home Remedies: How to make teas (infusions and decoctions), syrups, tinctures, powders (capsules, pills and poultices), oils, salves, dream pillows, and baths -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Properties and Actions of Herbs -- Appendix 2. Additional Herbal Remedies -- Appendix 3. Freezing Fresh Herbs -- Appendix 4. Dosages -- Appendix 5. Collecting Herbs in the Wild -- Appendix 6. Cooking with Herbs Recipes -- Appendix 7. The Healing Power of Mushrooms -- A Few Edible and Medicinal Mushroom Profiles -- Resources: Companies/Organizations and Books -- About the Authors -- Photo Credits -- Index.

Biographical Note:
Dede Cummings is the coauthor of Living with Crohn's & Colitis: A Comprehensive Naturopathic Guide for Complete Digestive Wellness and Cooking Well: IBS.