Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year with James Wong - Hardcover

James Wong

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007345305 ISBN 13: 9780007345304

Publisher: Collins, 2010

Synopsis

You've got Boots the chemist growing in your back garden but you just don't know it yet. This book features fantastically easy recipes for natural remedies and beauty treats.

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About the Author:

James Wong grew up in Malaysia and Singapore. He trained at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew and gained an MSc in Ethnobotany from the University of Kent, graduating with distinction. His research has taken him to highland Ecuador, as well as to China and Java. He now lectures at the University of Kent and has also co-designed and built two RHS medal-winning gardens (in 2004 and 2008), which were designed to show that there is more to plants than 'looking pretty'.

Review:

"The recipes in Wong's book offer remedies for a wide range of ailments -from sore throats to hot flashes to head lice...Wong says humans have been battling with insects for only a few thousand years. Plants, however, have been at war with insects for millions of years. 'Over that huge period, there's been time for them to evolve all sorts of unusual strategies, many of which are natural chemical weapons - insecticides - that exist in the environment that can be used in all manner of ways, ' he says. In his recipes, Wong says he hijacks what plants have evolved for themselves, and he uses that to treat humans and animals."
-NPR's "All Things Considered"
"A provocative title-which sounds even more provocative when you realize that the author's name rhymes with bong. Bonus! But back off, dude. This is actually a guide to growing home remedies - legitimate remedies - for a variety of legitimate ailments, from athlete's foot to water retention. And Wong is an ethnobotanist wh

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0007345305
• ISBN 13: 9780007345304
• Binding: Hardcover