Step-by-step instructions show even the novice herbalist how to make a variety of home healers, including tinctures, poultices, compresses, elixirs and teas. Suggestions on planting and maintaining all the herbs you need to grow your own ingredients for every project. A comprehensive directory of over 50 different herbs and plants provides a useful reference tool on how to choose, grow, and heal with herbs.

Anne McIntyre is a Fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and has been practising herbal medicine for over 25 years. She also teaches Ayurvedic medicine, gynaecology, obstetrics and paediatrics and lectures extensively on herbal medicine and Ayurveda in the UK, USA and Europe.

YOUR PHARMACY: All the equipment and general instruction you will need to start creating remedies at home. GROW YOUR OWN: Planting and growing know-how to care and maintain your herbal ingredients. IMMUNITY BOOSTERS (7 projects): Toxin cleansers to boost the immune system and to relieve allergy and respiratory conditions. Includes: Basil & Bone Footbath for Fevers, Asthmatic's Thyme & Hyssop Honey Tea, Herbal Hayfever Helper. CLEAR SKIN, BRIGHT EYES (4 projects): Natural remedies that soothe and heal skin conditions to restore a healthy glow. Includes: Calendula & Chamomile for Eczema, Calming Coriander Eye Bath GOOD DIGESTION (9 projects): Herbal know-how for treating stomach complaints, improving energy and detoxing. Includes: Probiotic Breakfast Pot, Aromatic Stomach Settler, Lemon Balm IBS Beater, Weight Loss Salad MANAGING STERSS (6 projects): Herb oils and infusions to relieve stresses and strains. Includes: Mint & Feverfew Tea for Migraines, Uplifting Bath Blend, Herbal Sleep Pillow PHYSICAL WELLBEING (6 projects): Alleviate aches and pains and improve circulation with natural oils, teas, tinctures and compresses. Includes: Anti-inflammatory tea, Waterfall Salad for Fluid Retention, Menstrual Moon Tea FIRST AID (3 projects): Banish aches and pains with natural rubs, poultices and tinctures. PLANT DIRECTORY: Glossary of each herb's key characteristics, healing properties, and optimal growing conditions.; INDEX