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. What is essential is to know the plants thoroughly, not just to see them as containers of chemical substances, but as personalities with their own nature and a long history. The author highlights nine very common wild herbs that—usually unloved and certainly unnoticed—grow everywhere between the front door and the garden gate: nettle, mugwort, ground ivy, cleavers, plantain, horsetail, daisy, chickweed, and dandelion. He describes their properties and healing powers, their significance in folk medicine, their role in legends, fairy tales, and superstition, and their planetary associations.