Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginners Guide

Home-Grown Medicine.
Effective, safe, and inexpensive medicinal herbs are simple to grow and can be used to fortify your body against common upsets and ailments naturally. Rosemary Gladstar, the godmother of modern herbalism, offers a fresh introduction to growing and using 33 of her favourite herbs, complete with tips on introducing a herb patch to your backyard garden and easy-to-follow recipes for brewing restorative teas, blending soothing salves, and making tinctures, oils, syrups, and pills.

124 of Rosemary Gladstar’s favourite medicinal recipes include:

• Creaky Bones Cayenne Rub, page 63
• Warming Cinnamon Bath Salts, page 68
• Ginger Lemonaide, page 80
• Brain Tonic Tincture, page 85
• Good Gargle for a Bad Throat, page 88
• Rosemary’s Famous Face Cream, page 116
• Nutritive Heart Tonic Tincture, page 136
• Lemon Balm Bath, page 160
• Peppermint Tooth Powder, page 187

Rosemary Gladstar is the best-selling author of Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide and Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, which draw on her 40-plus years of experience studying and teaching about the healing properties of herbs. She is a world-renowned educator, activist, entrepreneur, and the founding director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center, the International Herb Symposium, and the New England Women’s Herbal Conference. Gladstar is the founding president of United Plant Savers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving and preserving native American herbs. She was the original formulator for Traditional Medicinal herbal teas and has led herbal educational adventures worldwide. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and serves on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine and The National Health Freedom Coalition. She lives in Vermont.