{"product_id":"old-remedies-for-modern-living","title":"Old Remedies for Modern Living","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #777777; font-family: \" open sans arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA comprehensive and full colour materia medica of western herbs focusing on using traditional and forgotten formulas and cures in modern practice and daily life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #777777; font-family: \" open sans arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eOutlining essential information which is often absent from modern herbal texts, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOld Remedies for Modern Living\u003c\/em\u003e details recipes for old and forgotten plant cures for over one hundred common Western herbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #777777; font-family: \" open sans arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eThe chapters include recipes such as tisanes, cold infusions, poultices, decoctions, bath oils, infused extracts, syrups, compresses and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #777777; font-family: \" open sans arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eComplete with full colour photographs, the book is structured as a well-researched and in-depth A to Z of herbs. From Agrimony to Yellow Dock, the entry for each herb provides an easily accessible introduction – allowing for quick referencing – which lists the etymology, plant lore, edibility, seasonality, medicinal properties and active constituents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #777777; font-family: \" open sans arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eEvery entry moves on to explore the historical usage of each plant alongside modern research, as well as dosages, topical uses and precautions, concluding with a number of forgotten remedies for which each plant can be used.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #777777; font-family: \" open sans arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOld Remedies for Modern Living\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential text for all practitioners and students of herbal medicine, encouraging readers to treat and innovate with herbal traditions of the past in their everyday practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":66519535649072,"sku":"9781801521741","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/old-remedies-for-modern-living","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}