Let Roots Be Your Medicine Paperback

£4.99

‘Let food be your medicine…’

The Nature Cures Pocketbooks expand on popular topics in the encyclopaedic, 1300-page Nature Cures: The A to Z of Ailments and Natural Foods, including specific foods and food groups, health problems, ailments and symptoms. (The series complements and is supported by the author’s internationally popular website, which has already received over 2,500,000 hits.)

The roots of plants have been used as medicines and nutritious food for thousands of years. Many have astonishing properties which can remedy a wide variety of human ailments and diseases without the harmful side-effects of powerful medications. Many should be an important part of the daily diet but are often neglected; others can easily be made into healing ‘infusions’, ‘tinctures’ and ‘decoctions’. This A to Z pocket guide of medicinal roots includes their nutritional values and which health issues they can help to treat and prevent.

50 in stock

Description

Contents

How to prepare roots: baking, boiling, steaming, decoctions, infusions, tinctures; Prebiotic roots; A-Z of 101 medicinal roots with medicinal properties, some in everyday use and many exotic, including: Angelica, Jerusalem artichoke, Beetroot, Black cohosh, Burdock root, Carrot, Celeriac, Comfrey, Daikon, Dandelion, Garlic, Ginger, Ginseng, Henna, Horseradish, Japanese knotweed, Jerusalem artichoke, Kava kava, Liquorice root, Marshmallow, Onion, Parsnip, Plantain, Potato,  Radish, Rampion, Salsify, Sarsaparilla, Suma, Swede, Sweet potato, Turmeric, Turnip, Valerian White potato, Yam…

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Additional information

Weight 30 kg
Dimensions 30 × 30 × 30 cm

About the Author

Nat Hawes runs a successful Nutritional Therapy Clinic in London, England, where she deals with patients suffering from allergies, chronic fatigue, diabetes, digestive disorders, infertility, insomnia, obesity, pain and inflammation and mental health issues. She has spent 15 years researching and compiling her internationally popular website which brings together both the health problems that can be helped by nutritional interventions, and the healing properties of natural foods.
Craig Robinson took a first in Mathematics at Oxford University in 1985. He then joined Price Waterhouse and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988, after which he worked as a lecturer in the private sector, and also in The City of London, primarily in Financial Sector Regulation roles. Craig first met Sarah in 2001, as a patient for the treatment of his CFS, and since then they have developed a professional working relationship, where he helps with the maintenance of www.drmyhill.co.uk, the moderating of Dr Myhill’s Facebook groups and other ad hoc projects, as well as with the editing and writing of her books.

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