Synopses & Reviews
Herbs dont have television or magazine ads touting their benefits and yet, in many instances, they perform just as well as and sometimes better than the pharmaceuticals we constantly hear and read about. While pharmaceuticals can be life saving, neglected herbal remedies can be equally life enhancing. Author Michelle Schoffro Cook knows this from 25 years of personal health experience, advanced nutrition study, and work with thousands of sufferers. This book distills that knowledge and experience to offer readers all the information they need to make use of herbs at home in safe and effective ways. Dr. Cook profiles 30 common and readily available herbs, sharing scientific discoveries about their usefulness and offering practical and often fun ways of incorporating these Mother Nature Medicines” back into daily life, where they belong.
Review
"Michelle Schoffro Cook's books are my health bibles. I adore her work and refer back to her teaching time and time again. If you want glowing, vibrant health, let brilliant Michelle be your guide." Kris Carr, New York Timesbestselling author of Crazy, Sexy Diet
Synopsis
Nurture and Heal with Nature s Herbal Wonders
This complete guide will get you growing, harvesting, using, and healing with herbs the world s oldest and most effective natural medicines. Popular health writer Dr. Michelle Schoffro Cook profiles thirty-one common and easy-to-grow (or readily available) herbs, sharing scientific discoveries about their usefulness and offering more than one hundred easy ways to use them in delicious recipes, healing teas, and soothing body treatments. You ll discover ways to delight body and mind as you incorporate Mother Nature s medicines into daily life, where they nurture and protect.
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About the Author
Michelle Schoffro Cook, PhD, DNM, is a certified herbalist and board-certified doctor of natural medicine. She holds advanced degrees in health nutrition, orthomolecular nutrition, and acupuncture. She lives, and grows her own food and herbal medicines, near Vancouver, BC, Canada.