I feel like to go foraging. [Backyard Pharmacy (mini) by Elizabeth Millard]

This compact yet complete guide to herbal medicines shows you how to transform common plants into remedies that heal. While using herbs as medicines can often seem complicated or costly, the Backyard Pharmacy gift edition offers a way to learn that’s simple, effective, and low cost.

Plants you once believed were just seasonings for sauce in the kitchen or scents for your home are in fact medicines that can help heal and soothe, if you know what to do with them. This book shows you how easy it can be to make your own herbal remedies for life’s common ailments. Profiles of common healing plants offer advice on growing, harvesting, preparing, and using these herbs in healing tinctures, oils, and creams.

You'll find all-natural, low-cost herbal solutions for a range of common ailments, such as:  Learn how to grow and craft a poultice to soothe mosquito bites.Make an herbal tincture to fix sluggish digestion. Brew up some lemon balm iced tea to ease a stressful day. Craft echinacea drops to support immune system health.Use elderberry to ease cold and flu symptoms.Blend a cayenne salve to relieve inflammation.Steep chamomile tea to aid with insomnia.  From the common cold to a nasty scrape, headache, or digestive issue, simple, all-natural home-grown ingredients can make you feel healthy and happy. With guidance from this useful yet beautiful book, you'll be able to match properties of each plant to your own medicinal needs. And with this new, more compact gift edition, you can share the soothing essence of herbal remedies with everyone you love.

A major part of my motivation in learning about drugs (my educational background is in Pharmacy) was a childhood experience where I inadvertently made a plant extract. It was an accidental concoction, where some plant was left in water, forgotten and unattended for weeks, months likely. A concoction that when discovered anew raised so many questions. My mother, with similar passion in her heart, found me a book of hers on medicinal plants and the like. Since then the knowledge of plants as medicine is something I always look for and forward to, though the degree to which I've put what I know in this sense to practice remains unsatisfactory.

Previously authoring Backyard Pharmacy: Growing Medicinal Plants in Your Own Yard, Elizabeth
Millard's Backyard Pharmacy: Plants as Medicine - Plant, Grow, Harvest, and Heal is a compact, mini edition, perfect for quick referencing. By no means the most extensive reference, as is to be expected from an abbreviation, this edition of Backyard Pharmacy was still very informative. Being general familiar with most plants highlighted I felt comfortable with the text, but I'd imagine that as a gift for a neophyte the plant identification was too general. But as for me, I'd like to have it. As I read I dreamt of buying one of those cheap stocks of raspberry from a big box store and trellising one up a metal frame at the back of a future yard. Or generally of the plants mentioned that I'd like to grow in my yard, growing, again, in that future yard. When I rate at book 5 stars it's a given that I'd like to buy it and have it in a future personal, physical library. That's not the case for all of my 4 stars reads, but this one is definitely one I'd like to have on my person. 4 stars from me.

Backyard Pharmacy is due for publication September 08, 2020.