Heal Local

20 Essential Herbs for Do-it-Yourself Home Healthcare

Imagine if everyone could step into their backyard or balcony and pick what they need for any minor health emergency. Homestead herbalist Dawn Combs shows how by using only 20 common plants with Heal Local’s small apothecary model, you can provide complete herbal home healthcare and be prepared for nearly all common injuries and ailments.

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Description

The author of Sweet Remedies offers a straightforward, empowering guide to homegrown herbal remedies for illness injuries, and preventative health.

Most of us understand the value of eating and buying local. Taking back our food, goods, and services from multinational corporations and sourcing them from small growers, producers, artisans, and entrepreneurs benefits our families, our environment, and our communities. Heal Local argues that “100-mile healthcare” can be equally valuable in terms of how we treat illness and injury and maintain wellness.

This innovative guide demonstrates that by harnessing multifaceted whole plants, we can rely on homegrown or regionally produced herbs rather than importing exotics and non-natives. Based on the small apothecary model, author Dawn Combs explains how to:

  • Maximize the benefits of homegrown first aid, from increased freshness, potency, and effectiveness to community resilience and local economic growth
  • Make home herbal healthcare less intimidating and more attainable, by focusing on twenty herbs to effectively treat most common injuries and ailments
  • Implement a local medicine culture safely and sustainably, while protecting and respecting wild plant populations

Many herbals overwhelm their readers, presenting a list of hundreds of herbs, each with a different purpose. Heal Local empowers readers by showing that you don’t need to know everything about every herb on the planet to create a complete home apothecary. Anyone can be self-sufficient with their wellness, regardless of their previous knowledge, experience, or available space.

Mother Earth News Books for Wiser Living Recommendation

“An excellent reflection on integrating the western medicine model and local medicine communities.” —Cheri Dinsmore, RN, BSN, president, Harmony Farm

About The Author(s)

Dawn Combs is a homestead herbalist and ethnobotanist with over 20 years experience in women’s health issues. She began her career with a B.A. in Botany and Humanities/Classics, and later apprenticed with Rosemary Gladstar. As well as training others in herbal home healthcare, she treats her family’s common illnesses and minor injuries with natural therapies, herbal remedies and appropriate foods. Dawn is a beekeeper, educator and co-owner of the medicinal herb and honey farm Mockingbird Meadows, which is nationally recognized for her signature line of therapeutic herbal honey spreads. Her family was recently recognized by Mother Earth News as one of their 2013 Homesteaders of the Year. Dawn is the author of Conceiving Healthy Babies.

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Book Specifications

ISBN: 9780865717961

Page Count: 320

Dimensions: 7.5 × 9 × 0.672 in

Publication Date: June 01, 2015

Part of the Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series

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