The Herbal Arts

Nature's storehouse includes herbs that uplift, beautify, flavor, and heal. The Herbal Arts explores over one hundred of these plants with practicality, ease of use, and accessibility in mind. Besides a complete how-to section, its pages are filled with herb lore and multicultural histories, aromatic culinary and craft hints, health and home applications, and gardening tips, along with spiritual insights. Thus, this comprehensive volume serves body, mind, and soul, and increases the reader's appreciation of nature's gifts to us.Whether one grows his or her own herbs or buys them at the supermarket, The Herbal Arts blossoms with ideas and insights, as it explores herbalism's marvelous global traditions and history as well as modern expressions of this ancient art.Learning these herbal techniques can save readers money on flavored oils, soaps, creams, and even pet care! Better still, all the recipes are earth friendly, conservation minded, and spiritually fulfilling.