Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Fixes

Smart and littered with those warnings you'd expect from a professional scientist (ethnobotanist!), this is a selection of natural fixes that you could use in conjunction with conventional remedies, this one emphasises more the beauty and small remedies rather than the expansive claims made by many.

I first saw Wong on his show of the same title, which aired in my area for maybe ten episodes a few years ago. It's fun to watch this ridiculously cheerful guy, who's an ethnobotanist, tramping through a public park cutting and picking commonplace plants for use at home. This book contains the lavender bath bomb recipe I copied off the show, along with recipes for treating all kinds of ailments, like coughs, insomnia, chapped skin, and for boosting memory. The problem for me is that not many of these plants grow wild or otherwise in my climate, and there's quite a few that seem native to the U.K., so I'd never come across them. Oh well, it's a fun book and I'll try what I can. 4 stars
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