Decorative Medicinal Plants in the Garden

Continuation of the bestseller "Houseplants" - a guide to more than 160 medicinal plants (cultivation, harvesting, recipes). Maximum benefit from the green pharmacy, which is always at hand.

A. Tsitsilin - head of the Botanical Garden, author of well-known encyclopedias and... atlases on medicinal herbs, candidate of biological sciences.

Skilled hands of a gardener can turn a diligently cultivated garden plot and a mysterious garden hidden on the loggia of an urban apartment into a green pharmacy. Carefully collected, stocked, and properly prepared, decorative asters and violets, recognized "healers" calendula and St. John's wort, and many other plants will become natural medicine, beneficial and useful for diseases and injuries. In this book, you will learn about the chemical composition, use in scientific and folk medicine, recipes for use and growing methods for more than 170 species of flowering and herbaceous plants that grow in the central region of Russia. The guide to the "green pharmacy" will protect you from mistakes when collecting, storing, and using medicinal raw materials and will help maximize the benefits of the preparations.