- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Healing Arts Press; American ed edition (1 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0892814969
- ISBN-13: 978-0892814961
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 452,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| ||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Green Witch Herbal: Restoring Nature's Magic in Home, Health & Beauty Care for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"I recommend more than one copy, for this book will be widely used throughout your home."
Product Description
As we seek more natural alternatives to harsh synthetic products, we are learning a new and healthy respect for the traditional wisdom our ancestors took for granted. Women are rediscovering their foremothers' "green witchcraft"--the use of flowers, leaves, berries, roots, and barks in home and garden, for hygiene and beauty, for pleasure and for health. Now, that lore may be found in this modern source book of the domestic use of herbs. Full of practical advice and fascinating historical insights, this delightful book shows you how to tap into the astonishing power of plants and herbs.
Includes recipes for a variety of remedies and personal care products, and devotes a chapter to the creative use of herbs in the kitchen for cooking and as natural cleansers and disinfectants.
Griggs' best-selling and widely-praised Green Pharmacy is considered the standard work on the history of herbal medicine.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
In the Middle Ages, herbs and flowers were prized as much for their aroma as for their good looks. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
In the Middle Ages, herbs and flowers were prized as much for their aroma as for their good looks. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would give this book five stars for the info and three for the layout.
The herbal remedies discussed here are very useful, starting with the info on what herbs to use for cleaning your house and what kind of indoor plants to use to purify the air you're breathing. The herbal remedies on skin care and several health issues can be found in most herbal books. However, I thought that the chapter about cleansing was very interesting, as it leads to a cure (prevention, actually) for the common cold.
A note: Despite the title, and although it's written by a witch, spellcrafting is not discussed in this book. At least not in the usual way...
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Herbalism is something I have always been interested in, but I find that many books dealing with the subject involve themselves with in depth madical terminology and it is easy to get lost on the way. The Green Witch is excellent because it gives simple herbal remedies that would have probably been used by the traditional village wise woman or witch. I also liked the fact that included in the book are household herbal recipes for hygiene and perfumes etc. That sort of information I have found quite hard to come by. My only criticism of this book would be to say that the use of the word witch in the title is misleading, As the book deals with herbalism rather than witchcraft and although the two subjects are closely connected, there is no mention of the practise of witchcraft in the book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found thie information in this to be great. Lots of ideas and recipes for herbal and natural medicines and uses round the home. However the layout made the book hard going. It could have been done in a much more accessable way.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
