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The Garden Apothecary
Homemade remedies for everyday ailments
Health and wellness is a booming sector in Australia. We eat clean and we detox our pantries. But what about our medicine cabinets and the lotions and potions we use on our skin? Shouldn’t we take as much care with those as we do with food?
In The Garden Apothecary, Herb Nerd Reece Carter shows you how to grow and make your own gentle herbal remedies, taking you right through from growing your own plants to concocting your own tinctures and ointments.
Using forty of his favourite recipes, Reece reveals how you can use organic raw ingredients to relieve a wide range of everyday ailments, naturally.
The Garden Apothecary reveals how natural remedies can help you:
* boost your immunity and fight flus and colds
* relieve stress and sleep issues
* improve your digestion and gut health
* increase your vitality and libido; and
* resolve skin and beauty problems.
This book will inspire you to take hold of your health with remedies backed by traditional use and modern science that can all be rustled up from your own garden or pantry.
Health and wellness is a booming sector in Australia. We eat clean and we detox our pantries. But what about our medicine cabinets and the lotions and potions we use on our skin? Shouldn’t we take as much care with those as we do with food?
In The Garden Apothecary, Herb Nerd Reece Carter shows you how to grow and make your own gentle herbal remedies, taking you right through from growing your own plants to concocting your own tinctures and ointments.
Using forty of his favourite recipes, Reece reveals how you can use organic raw ingredients to relieve a wide range of everyday ailments, naturally.
The Garden Apothecary reveals how natural remedies can help you:
* boost your immunity and fight flus and colds
* relieve stress and sleep issues
* improve your digestion and gut health
* increase your vitality and libido; and
* resolve skin and beauty problems.
This book will inspire you to take hold of your health with remedies backed by traditional use and modern science that can all be rustled up from your own garden or pantry.
- GenresGardeningNonfiction
192 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2017
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March 2, 2022
I was excited to get this book (especially since it’s Australian) but was kinda left somewhat disappointed. I think if you have 0 gardening experience and live in a city - then this is for you.
But most of the recipes weren’t exactly garden foraged ingredients. A lot of the time he said to forage for the supplies at health food stores and online. Maybe it’s just the name of the book that’s contradictory to this.
If you love looking at full page photos of a pretty man in hipster clothes, sniffing herbs and staring blissfully off into the distance - this is for you!
In between the hipster photos were beautiful photos of plants/chickens/farmyard/bottles (he doesn’t even live there) but they didn’t relate to the recipe. Like there was a full page photo of sweetpeas next to a recipe of lemon balm tea? Then at the end was photos of a Jacaranda and then an Irisene…and at the beginning was a cycad :/ hmm… oh and then a peacock! A full 2 page photo of a peacock.
Some of the recipes seem interesting and I’ll give them a go sometime. Though most were for trivial things like bloating and stress.
Maybe because I came at this book with botanical knowledge that’s making me skeptical and judgy, but I do wish I saved my $ for buying something less wishy-washy.
But most of the recipes weren’t exactly garden foraged ingredients. A lot of the time he said to forage for the supplies at health food stores and online. Maybe it’s just the name of the book that’s contradictory to this.
If you love looking at full page photos of a pretty man in hipster clothes, sniffing herbs and staring blissfully off into the distance - this is for you!
In between the hipster photos were beautiful photos of plants/chickens/farmyard/bottles (he doesn’t even live there) but they didn’t relate to the recipe. Like there was a full page photo of sweetpeas next to a recipe of lemon balm tea? Then at the end was photos of a Jacaranda and then an Irisene…and at the beginning was a cycad :/ hmm… oh and then a peacock! A full 2 page photo of a peacock.
Some of the recipes seem interesting and I’ll give them a go sometime. Though most were for trivial things like bloating and stress.
Maybe because I came at this book with botanical knowledge that’s making me skeptical and judgy, but I do wish I saved my $ for buying something less wishy-washy.
August 23, 2017
Poorly researched and some information is outright dangerous.
Just another quick natural health money grab.
Disappointed as I was really looking forward to this book.
Just another quick natural health money grab.
Disappointed as I was really looking forward to this book.
December 27, 2017
There are some good recipes for herbal teas and snack foods in here, which I will try, but I will not be replacing pharmaceuticals when I am sick!
August 31, 2020
Take caution and use other resources to evaluate the writing of Carter. OK but not detailed when dealing with herbs.
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