Description
Since ancient times, true herbalists have known that even the simplest, most common herbs have their value and that just a handful is enough to cure all ailments.
It is essential to know the plants thoroughly, to view them not only as containers of chemical active substances, but as personalities with their own nature and their own long history.
The author singles out nine very common wild herbs that grow everywhere between the front door and the garden gate, mostly unloved and certainly ignored: nettle, mugwort, ground ivy, goat's foot, plantain, horsetail, daisy, chickweed and dandelion. He describes their properties and healing powers, their importance in folk medicine, their role in legends, fairy tales and superstitions and their planetary references.
