Book description
James Wong is back, putting his ethnobotanical expertise to use once
again, with over 100 new, natural, cheap and easy remedies, showing you
and those around you how to have a fantastically healthy year.
Whether you're fed up with your hormones, worried about your baby's
nappy rash, your partner is prone to a sore-throat, or leg-waxing is
proving just too expensive to maintain, Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year With
James Wong offers over 100 great new remedies to soothe all manner of
common conditions and beauty problems - whenever they might flare up.
James shows how easy it to have access to the right ingredients
whatever the weather, with his easy-to follow seasonal focus - whether
you've got a window box, a roof terrace, a country garden (or a computer
to order the goods online…). His seasonal planner takes you right
through from Spring to Winter, making sure you know what to plant when,
the best time to harvest and how to create your own mini-apothecary (or
store-cupboard) at home.
Packed with James's personal top tips and easy solutions for both
growing and making remedies, this is your must-have companion to help
ward off any ailments and complaints which might crop up throughout the
year, the natural, James Wong way.
FEATURES:
• Over 100 new remedies
• New seasonal guide - how to make sure you have all the ingredients you
need for a healthy body and mind all year round
• New non-gardener's guide: if you're not green-fingered or don't have a
garden, James reveals how to identify plants and how to source good
quality ingredients online
• More about James's personal inspirations: how he came to a career in
ethnobotany, how he goes about living his own GYOD year and why a
seasonal approach is important and easy to adopt
• James's top tips and new gift flashes (perfect for cheap, thoughtful presents)
• New case studies: how people who've tried and tested the remedies have
got on
• New HOME section: brilliant natural and cheap remedies for home life.
Contains pet flea powder, horsetail metal polish, wood polish, carpet
deodoriser James Wong grew up in Malaysia and Singapore. He trained at
the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew and gained an MSc in Ethnobotany from
the University of Kent, graduating with distinction. His research has
taken him to highland Ecuador, as well as to China and Java. He now
lectures at the University of Kent and has also co-designed and built
two RHS medal-winning gardens (in 2004 and 2008), which were designed to
show that there is more to plants than 'looking pretty'.
