Herbal Manufacturing: How To Make Medicines From Plants
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Herbal Manufacturing: How To Make Medicines From Plants (2022, 2nd Edition) is the compact, fully-illustrated reference that herbal hobbyists, gardeners, and wellness-minded adults have been waiting for. In just 105 highly visual pages, authors Jenny Adams and Eleanor Tan distill decades of plant-based practice into a step-by-step manual for turning backyard and farmers-market herbs into safe, effective tinctures, salves, teas, and capsules. The new edition adds updated safety charts, metric measurements, and full-color photos of every piece of equipment you’ll need, so even first-time makers can follow along without guesswork.
What sets this book apart is its rare blend of backyard botany and pharmaceutical rigor. Adams, a trained herbalist, teams up with Tan, a plant biochemist, to explain not only “how” but “why” each extraction method works. Readers learn to match the right solvent—alcohol, glycerin, vinegar, or oil—to the medicinal constituents in plants like calendula, holy basil, and elderberry, then dose them confidently using the included quick-reference charts. A special section on sustainable wild-crafting and garden planning makes the guide equally valuable to city-dwellers with a balcony herb box and rural growers with acreage.
Because the paperback is lightweight and spiral-friendly, it lies flat on a kitchen counter while you weigh, chop, and pour. Owners praise the stain-resistant matte cover and the lay-flat photos that show each stage of color change in tinctures—visual cues that prevent costly mistakes. This particular copy is in very-good condition from a smoke-free home, so every page of the illustrated 2022 update is crisp and ready for note-taking. For anyone who wants to replace over-the-counter remedies with handcrafted plant medicine, this concise manual is the fastest route from garden to apothecary shelf.
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