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Nature's Medicine Cabinet: Seasonal Recipes and Remedies for a Year of Botanical Wellness
Take control of your health and wellness with the power of natural medicines.
This guide introduces you to the world of herbal remedies, essential oils, and natural healing plants. Discover the healing properties of various plants and oils, and learn how to extract their benefits in your everyday life. Whether you're looking to boost your immune system, ease headaches, or reduce stress, Nature's Medicine Cabinet provides easy-to-follow instructions and proven techniques to help you achieve it.
Inside you'll
TeasTincturesSalvesSyrupsAnd moreCreated with beginners and experienced natural health enthusiasts in mind, this book offers detailed information on preparing, growing, and harvesting your natural remedies. Ditch the chemicals and harness the power of nature with Nature's Medicine Cabinet.
This guide introduces you to the world of herbal remedies, essential oils, and natural healing plants. Discover the healing properties of various plants and oils, and learn how to extract their benefits in your everyday life. Whether you're looking to boost your immune system, ease headaches, or reduce stress, Nature's Medicine Cabinet provides easy-to-follow instructions and proven techniques to help you achieve it.
Inside you'll
TeasTincturesSalvesSyrupsAnd moreCreated with beginners and experienced natural health enthusiasts in mind, this book offers detailed information on preparing, growing, and harvesting your natural remedies. Ditch the chemicals and harness the power of nature with Nature's Medicine Cabinet.
208 pages, Hardcover
Published May 13, 2025
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June 21, 2025
Super helpful how-to guide for making your own home remedies, including helpful plant tips and seasonal remedies. I was surprised at how many of the foundational (frequently used) plants will grow in Phoenix.
May 11, 2025
Book Review: Nature’s Medicine Cabinet by Meagan Visser
Rating: 4 Stars
I recently picked up Nature’s Medicine Cabinet: Seasonal Recipes and Remedies for a Year of Botanical Wellness by Meagan Visser, and it’s a refreshing dive into the world of herbal medicine. As someone interested in natural wellness, this book quickly became a handy guide to understanding how to harness the healing power of plants throughout the year.
Visser, who brings her expertise as both an herbalist and a registered nurse, breaks down the basics of herbalism in a way that’s approachable for beginners but still valuable for those more experienced. The book is organized into seasonal chapters, which I loved because it aligns perfectly with how herbs grow and can be used in real life. Each section guides you through common health concerns you might face during that time of year, offering practical recipes that you can make yourself—everything from teas and tinctures to herbal oils.
One of the aspects I found particularly useful was the emphasis on sourcing local herbs and understanding the seasonal availability of plants. I appreciated the historical tidbits sprinkled throughout, along with foundational concepts that help you feel confident about preparing your own remedies at home. There are 60 recipes in total, each accompanied by beautiful illustrations that make it easy to identify the key herbs involved.
The cover is stunning and inviting, and the layout inside is clean and easy to follow. It feels like a perfect gift for anyone who loves gardening or is curious about herbal medicine.
If I had to give one critique, it would be that sometimes the depth of information could feel a bit overwhelming for absolute beginners, but with some patience, it’s totally manageable.
Overall, Nature’s Medicine Cabinet offers a wonderful seasonal approach to building a natural medicine cabinet right from the plants growing outside your door. It encourages ditching synthetic chemicals in favor of nature’s remedies—a message I wholeheartedly support. Four stars from me for being informative, beautifully done, and genuinely inspiring for anyone interested in botanical wellness.
⚠️This review was written based on personal opinions and experiences with the book. Individual preferences may vary⚠️
Rating: 4 Stars
I recently picked up Nature’s Medicine Cabinet: Seasonal Recipes and Remedies for a Year of Botanical Wellness by Meagan Visser, and it’s a refreshing dive into the world of herbal medicine. As someone interested in natural wellness, this book quickly became a handy guide to understanding how to harness the healing power of plants throughout the year.
Visser, who brings her expertise as both an herbalist and a registered nurse, breaks down the basics of herbalism in a way that’s approachable for beginners but still valuable for those more experienced. The book is organized into seasonal chapters, which I loved because it aligns perfectly with how herbs grow and can be used in real life. Each section guides you through common health concerns you might face during that time of year, offering practical recipes that you can make yourself—everything from teas and tinctures to herbal oils.
One of the aspects I found particularly useful was the emphasis on sourcing local herbs and understanding the seasonal availability of plants. I appreciated the historical tidbits sprinkled throughout, along with foundational concepts that help you feel confident about preparing your own remedies at home. There are 60 recipes in total, each accompanied by beautiful illustrations that make it easy to identify the key herbs involved.
The cover is stunning and inviting, and the layout inside is clean and easy to follow. It feels like a perfect gift for anyone who loves gardening or is curious about herbal medicine.
If I had to give one critique, it would be that sometimes the depth of information could feel a bit overwhelming for absolute beginners, but with some patience, it’s totally manageable.
Overall, Nature’s Medicine Cabinet offers a wonderful seasonal approach to building a natural medicine cabinet right from the plants growing outside your door. It encourages ditching synthetic chemicals in favor of nature’s remedies—a message I wholeheartedly support. Four stars from me for being informative, beautifully done, and genuinely inspiring for anyone interested in botanical wellness.
⚠️This review was written based on personal opinions and experiences with the book. Individual preferences may vary⚠️
May 14, 2025
Nature's Medicine Cabinet by Meagan Visser
Seasonal Recipes and Remedies for a Year of Botanical Wellness
Be prepared when common health conditions arise throughout the year with Nature’s Medicine Cabinet. With herbal recipes for each season and the methods to prepare them, it is your resource for making herbal preparations rather than buying them.
Herbalist and registered nurse Meagan Visser gives you a basic understanding of how to use herbs in your home and teach you how to create a natural medicine cabinet filled with seasonal herbal recipes that will help you tackle common conditions year-round.
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet guides you through the seasons, helping you to stock your home medicine cabinet with effective herbal recipes to support common seasonal conditions as naturally as possible.
Not only will you learn the value of sourcing herbs in your local area and which plants are commonly growing each season, but you’ll also learn
the history of herbalism,
foundational herbal concepts to be mindful of,
how to make common herbal preparations, such as teas, tinctures, glycerites, herbal oils, and more, and
60 seasonal recipes for your home apothecary, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustration to help you identify its primary herb.
In the end, you’ll be inspired to approach the wild and wonderful world of herbs from a seasonal perspective and to create a natural medicine cabinet from the bounty of botanicals often growing right outside your front door.
Ditch the chemicals and harness the power of nature with Nature's Medicine Cabinet.
Inside you'll find:
Teas
Tinctures
Salves
Syrups
And more
Created with beginners and experienced natural health enthusiasts in mind, this book offers detailed information on preparing, growing, and harvesting your natural remedies.
Nature's Medicine Cabinet by Meagan Visser is a 5 star book.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced readers copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions shared here in this review are my own.
Seasonal Recipes and Remedies for a Year of Botanical Wellness
Be prepared when common health conditions arise throughout the year with Nature’s Medicine Cabinet. With herbal recipes for each season and the methods to prepare them, it is your resource for making herbal preparations rather than buying them.
Herbalist and registered nurse Meagan Visser gives you a basic understanding of how to use herbs in your home and teach you how to create a natural medicine cabinet filled with seasonal herbal recipes that will help you tackle common conditions year-round.
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet guides you through the seasons, helping you to stock your home medicine cabinet with effective herbal recipes to support common seasonal conditions as naturally as possible.
Not only will you learn the value of sourcing herbs in your local area and which plants are commonly growing each season, but you’ll also learn
the history of herbalism,
foundational herbal concepts to be mindful of,
how to make common herbal preparations, such as teas, tinctures, glycerites, herbal oils, and more, and
60 seasonal recipes for your home apothecary, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustration to help you identify its primary herb.
In the end, you’ll be inspired to approach the wild and wonderful world of herbs from a seasonal perspective and to create a natural medicine cabinet from the bounty of botanicals often growing right outside your front door.
Ditch the chemicals and harness the power of nature with Nature's Medicine Cabinet.
Inside you'll find:
Teas
Tinctures
Salves
Syrups
And more
Created with beginners and experienced natural health enthusiasts in mind, this book offers detailed information on preparing, growing, and harvesting your natural remedies.
Nature's Medicine Cabinet by Meagan Visser is a 5 star book.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced readers copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions shared here in this review are my own.
May 17, 2025
This is a nice basic herbal book with a variety of recipes to make lots of remedies. Most of the recipes call for a lot of ingredients, which is often frustrating and costly for those who don’t have access to dozens of fresh herbal ingredients. I do have a wonderful supply that I’ve built up and access to quite a lot in my garden and through foraging, but many of the recipes still called for at least one or two ingredients I’d have to buy, especially ones not native to my area.
This is a great book if you want recipes more than remedies. I am an old fashioned herbalist and quite simple. I make my elderberry syrup the way I learned from the godmother of herbalism, Rosemary Gladstar — just elderberries, honey and water, for instance. I make nettle infusion quickly on the stove in the spring and keep dried nettles the rest of the year for quick teas. I put tinctures of hawthorn for my heart, motherwort for stress, elderberries for immune protection and astragalus for its adaptogenic properties in my morning keto coffee. All these things are small and easy, which is what works best for me.
There are no photos but there are illustrations of plants that are very pretty. I suspect they may be AI art as there is no illustrator listen anywhere in the book. I hope not and perhaps they are stock images purchased elsewhere. In any case they are lovely but not terribly helpful for plant identification or seeing what the remedies will look like.
All in all, this will be a good book for a new herbalist who wants to make up homemade syrups, salves, tea blends and such. The author is an established herbalist who can be trusted and she gives lots of good information and advice.
I read a temporary digital loan of this book via netgalley.
This is a great book if you want recipes more than remedies. I am an old fashioned herbalist and quite simple. I make my elderberry syrup the way I learned from the godmother of herbalism, Rosemary Gladstar — just elderberries, honey and water, for instance. I make nettle infusion quickly on the stove in the spring and keep dried nettles the rest of the year for quick teas. I put tinctures of hawthorn for my heart, motherwort for stress, elderberries for immune protection and astragalus for its adaptogenic properties in my morning keto coffee. All these things are small and easy, which is what works best for me.
There are no photos but there are illustrations of plants that are very pretty. I suspect they may be AI art as there is no illustrator listen anywhere in the book. I hope not and perhaps they are stock images purchased elsewhere. In any case they are lovely but not terribly helpful for plant identification or seeing what the remedies will look like.
All in all, this will be a good book for a new herbalist who wants to make up homemade syrups, salves, tea blends and such. The author is an established herbalist who can be trusted and she gives lots of good information and advice.
I read a temporary digital loan of this book via netgalley.
August 8, 2025
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet is a gorgeous, practical, and easy-to-use herbal guide that I know I’ll be referring back to for years. Megan Visser has pulled together over 60 seasonal recipes from soothing teas and tinctures to herbal oils, glycerites, and more and arranged them in a way that makes it so simple to find precisely what you need.
If you’re just dipping your toes into naturpathy or you’ve been making your remedies for years, this book offers something for every level. The fundamentals are explained clearly, and I appreciated the inclusion of essential safety notes, particularly around herbs that aren’t suitable for children or pregnant women.
The illustrations are gorgeous and make identifying herbs straightforward, even without photographs. Each is clear, well-sized, and thoughtfully laid out to match the recipes they accompany. And speaking of the recipes, they’re beautifully presented, easy to follow, and don’t require hard-to-find ingredients.
If I had to point out a drawback, it’s simply that there aren’t any photographs, but honestly, the illustrations more than make up for it, and I think they add a timeless quality to the book.
If you’ve ever wanted a single, approachable, and visually appealing reference for seasonal herbal wellness, this is it. Practical, inspiring, and beautifully put together, a solid five stars from me.
Thank you, NetGalley and Cider Mill Press, for supplying an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.
If you’re just dipping your toes into naturpathy or you’ve been making your remedies for years, this book offers something for every level. The fundamentals are explained clearly, and I appreciated the inclusion of essential safety notes, particularly around herbs that aren’t suitable for children or pregnant women.
The illustrations are gorgeous and make identifying herbs straightforward, even without photographs. Each is clear, well-sized, and thoughtfully laid out to match the recipes they accompany. And speaking of the recipes, they’re beautifully presented, easy to follow, and don’t require hard-to-find ingredients.
If I had to point out a drawback, it’s simply that there aren’t any photographs, but honestly, the illustrations more than make up for it, and I think they add a timeless quality to the book.
If you’ve ever wanted a single, approachable, and visually appealing reference for seasonal herbal wellness, this is it. Practical, inspiring, and beautifully put together, a solid five stars from me.
Thank you, NetGalley and Cider Mill Press, for supplying an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.
May 13, 2025
I love the aesthetics on this one—everything from the page layout and colors to the font and illustrations. Such a gorgeous treasure.
And this book is packed with information—more thorough than other herbalism books I've come across. For example, one thing that really stood out was the formula for proper dosing based on an individual's weight. And even having the book divided into seasons, based on the season the herbs are harvested is novel and intuitive. It takes the guesswork out of figuring out when to harvest what.
Then there are the recipes. They are precise and easy to follow. And I particularly like the brief description at the top of each recipe, which gives a clear understanding of the recipe's use.
Visually appealing, inspirational, and thoroughly educational. A great reference for the home herbalists' library.
And this book is packed with information—more thorough than other herbalism books I've come across. For example, one thing that really stood out was the formula for proper dosing based on an individual's weight. And even having the book divided into seasons, based on the season the herbs are harvested is novel and intuitive. It takes the guesswork out of figuring out when to harvest what.
Then there are the recipes. They are precise and easy to follow. And I particularly like the brief description at the top of each recipe, which gives a clear understanding of the recipe's use.
Visually appealing, inspirational, and thoroughly educational. A great reference for the home herbalists' library.
June 14, 2025
*Nature's Medicine Cabinet* offers an insightful and accessible look into the healing power of plants, blending traditional herbal knowledge with modern science. The author effectively demystifies natural remedies, highlighting their practical applications for everyday health issues, from colds to stress relief. With clear explanations and vivid descriptions, the book encourages a deeper appreciation for the natural world and its therapeutic potential. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced herbalist, this book serves as a valuable guide to harnessing nature’s pharmacy safely and effectively.
May 27, 2025
This book is beautifully crafted and equally as helpful. With useful, timely remedies going season by season, it guides you through a year's worth of wellness. I appreciate how clear and concise the first chapters are, helping the reader understand the supplies needed, how to get the herbs they're interested in, measurements, etc.
I'm excited to put some of these remedies into practice!
Thank you to NetGalley and the author for providing me with a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.
I'm excited to put some of these remedies into practice!
Thank you to NetGalley and the author for providing me with a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.
July 14, 2025
Beautifully organized and illustrated. This book offers guidance on medicinal remedies found right in your garden, many herbs I found in my own garden. The recipes are easy to follow and provide alternatives to chemical cures. While I am not opposed to modern medicine, I do appreciate a healthier way to get through common season allergies. Please keep in mind the remedies are only recommendations and are not "cure all" medicines. Always consult your medical provider before trying anything new regarding your health.
June 15, 2025
Thank you to Cider Mill Press Book Publishers for this book!
This book is stunningly beautiful! The art on the cover and each page is part of the appeal of this book. There are several recipes to aid in botanical wellness that I can’t wait to try. I have made the Quease-Ease Syrup and found it quite helpful. There is also a ton of information on herbs and how to use them for home remedies; it’s very informational!
This book is stunningly beautiful! The art on the cover and each page is part of the appeal of this book. There are several recipes to aid in botanical wellness that I can’t wait to try. I have made the Quease-Ease Syrup and found it quite helpful. There is also a ton of information on herbs and how to use them for home remedies; it’s very informational!
May 15, 2025
The graphics and recipes in this books are wonderful. To be able to go forging for the ingredients is such a lost art. This book brings nature and its past back to modern day homes.
September 8, 2025
I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but there a quite a few I'm looking forward to making.
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