The Green Witch: A Modern Woman's Herbal

by Barbara Griggs (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.47

  The Green Witch is a modern, comprehensive guide to using herbs. For home or garden, for beauty or hygiene, for kitchen and bathroom, for relaxation or relief from sickness, people everywhere are turning to the world of plants, be they flowers, leaves, berries or roots and barks. Full of practical advice, and packed with recipes for aromatic mixtures and effective natural remedies, this magical book shows you how to use the astonishing power of plants and herbs. Including sections on: wild food; spices; the sweet-smelling home; fragrant herbal baths; natural secrets of beautiful hair and skin; and an important section on herbal remedies for adults and children.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $6.95

  This is a modern compendium of herbal remedies and recipes. It has a chapter on beauty and hygiene, which explains how to make your own facial lotions, soaps and shampoos, how to massage with essential oils and how to create a herbal sauna. The kitchen and home section deals with culinary herbs and spices, and making herbal fly repellants, and the herbal remedies chapter includes an A-Z of herbal first aid, which covers a wide range of complaints, from sleeplessness to asthma, skin irritations to fatigue. The author writes a regular column for Country Living magazine on natural health, and her other books include: Green Pharmacy , Home Herbal and Superfoods .