Grow Your Own Medicine: A Guide to Growing Health-Giving Plants in Your Own Backyard

The use of herbs, vegetables and fruits for medicinal purposes dates back centuries - they are the foundation of all our modern medicines.
From carrots (packed with lycopene) to guard against heart disease, to cabbage (loaded with sulforaphane) to prevent cancer; from thyme-leaf antiseptic to arthritis-relieving ginger tea and ginger compresses - and of course, the always reliable superfood, parsley - this book gives you step-by-step instructions on how to grow them, lists their medicinal properties, and describes how to use them in teas, balms, compresses and cooking.
Whether you have a small vegie patch - or the space to create one - or room in a courtyard or balcony for a few pots, this book will show you how easy it is to create an organic medicine cabinet in your own backyard. Plant your way to good health!

About the Author:

MIM BEIM graduated from Nature Care College with the nutrition prize in 1988 and is the author of seven books, including FeelGood Food, Beaming with Health and The Commonsense Guide to Eating Well for the Nutritionally Bewildered. She is the past Head of Naturopathy for the Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS), Australia’s leading society for Natural Medicine. She is also a member of NHAA National Herbalists Association of Australia. She manufactures a range of therapeutic herbal teas called Beaming with Health Herbal Tisanes.