The Beginner's Guide to Medicinal Plants: 50 Essential Wild Herbs to Identify, Harvest, and Use

Create healing remedies with nature's help

Our planet is home to an abundance of powerful plants that can help you heal gently and naturally. In this beginner's guide, you'll learn how to find, harvest, and prepare some of the most common medicinal plants and use them to create restorative remedies―from a burdock tea for clearer skin to a cayenne pepper salve for better blood flow.

• Get to know the plants―Discover profiles of 50 essential plants, herbs, and roots, complete with photos and an overview of their unique medicinal properties.
• Teas, tinctures, and tonics―Put each plant to use with simple recipes for soothing poultices, energizing bath soaks, and so much more.
• Stay smart and safe―Learn how to properly identify plants, as well as how to use the Universal Edibility Test to check that what you find is safe to consume.

Your journey to homemade herbalism starts here.

Amber Robinson is a NAHA Level 2 Professional Aromatherapist, and an AHG Registered Herbalist. She grows her own herbs on her farm in the Missouri Ozarks, which she uses to create her own essential oils and to teach essential oil distillation at her school, The Bitter Herb Academy.