The Bookplace, February 03, 2005
YOU, Mail on Sunday, 13 February 2005
Book Description
Product Description
Sue Minter's beautiful book on the healing properties of plants shows the layman how to harness the healing potential of his own garden. The text covers both the history of plants that help humans, together with practical advice on creating a garden with healing porperties - from plants for minor ailments, to plants for a macro-biotic diet, to a secret garden as a fantasy, scented gardens, textured gardens, healing sounds, or, perhaps, a special feature such as a white garden.
Extremely practical, it offers clear, step-by-step advice for gardeners with easily accessible charts for plant uses, how they should be applied and when and where to grow them.
From the Inside Flap
Gardens can offer a welcome retreat from the stresses of everyday life, providing links with the natural world as well as giving us a chance to relax. The Healing Garden shows how we can make the best use of the power of the plants in our own gardens to heal, soothe and stimulate.
In the sixteenth century, apothecaries and physicians began creating physic gardens and teaching the medicinal use of plants. Today an astonishing 85 per cent of all pharmaceutical drugs still rely on plant sources. Sue Minter looks at the plant origins of many major drugs as well as the latest reserch into drugs of the future. More importantly, she explores how each of us can use plants for healing, showing how they can benefit the whole person, both physically and emotionally, through the five senses of taste, sight, hearing, smell and touch.
The core of the book is practical: it is packed with down-to-earth advice on choosing and growing plants that are both ornamental and sources of good health, whether as remedies for common ailments or as natural reserves of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Included are treatment methods and recommendations, suggestions for planting schemes and guidelines for garden design.
Benefiting from major new discoveries over the past decade, and from Sue Minter's unique experience, The Healing Garden is imbued with the style and ethos of the Eden Project and is equally inspirational.
