Foraging for Healing Herbs: How to Find Plants for Charms, Remedies and Rituals

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The bestselling author of Foraging With Kids shows us how to gather and use traditional herbs to boost wellbeing and scatter a little magic over our lives. Discover the ancient Nine Herbs Spell and learn to create your own!Forage in the footsteps of the witches who gathered plants for the medieval Nine Herbs Spell, and explore the traditional healing powers of the herbs all around you.Bestselling author Adele Nozedar introduces us to the wonder of the Nine Herbs Spell – the herbs that were most useful for medicine, food and magic in the early medieval period – before showing us how we can create our own healing charms today, whatever our local environment.Divided into nine habitats, the book shares nine foragable plants from each environment, complete with their uses, photographs for ID, history and folk tales, each herb's healing properties, and thirty recipes for edibles and remedies throughout. CHAPTER 1: The Nine Plants Spell CHAPTER 2: Nine Fragrant Plants of a Garden CHAPTER 3: Nine Shady Plants of the Woodlands CHAPTER 4: Nine Bygone Plants of the Meadows CHAPTER 5: Nine Secret Plants of the Town CHAPTER 6: Nine Plashy Plants of the Wetlands and Riverbanks CHAPTER 7: Nine Bracing Plants of the Sea CHAPTER 8: Nine Shy Weeds of the Wastelands CHAPTER 9: Nine Cunning Herbs That Are FreeThis book offers a fun new way to explore foraging and the use of herbs, discovering little-known treasures along the way.