Follow your nose to nature’s pharmacy: the garden, where the essence of flowers, fruits, and trees provide some of our most powerful—and pleasurable—sources of health and healing…
Essential oils—including peppermint, eucalyptus, rose, and tea tree—are nature’s ancient medicine, abundant with therapeutic effects. The latest scientific research shows that many popular essential oils and aromatherapy can boost your health and well-being, adding years to your life! This fascinating guide gives you the down-to-earth scoop on the top twenty oils—all of which are budget-friendly and available year-round in everyday products at your grocery store, health food store, and online. Learn how nature’s bouquet can help you:
*Fight colds and stomach woes with medicinal eucalyptus and mint; slow the aging process and lower your risk of cancer, heart disease, and depression with relaxing chamomile and lavender.
*Naturally enhance flavor in dishes for every season with sweet-smelling foods like Cinnamon Rolls and Gingerbread Squares that lift your mood and trigger fond memories.
*Discover dozens of home remedies to ease anxiety and stress, improve sleep, sharpen brainpower, increase energy, heal skin problems, and more!
*Enjoy over 50 recipes for delicious dishes from salads, soups and entrees to desserts, including Lemon Oil Raspberry Muffins and Roast Chicken with Rosemary.
Sprinkled with feel-good stories and memorable legends, The Healing Powers of Essential Oils shows you how the comfort and calm of scent can help you get healthy and stay healthy, while taking you on an exciting and life-changing aromatic adventure!
The Healing Powers of Essential Oils is one of a series of 'Healing Powers' books by Cal Orey. Due out 31st Dec 2019 from Kensington, it's 336 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
This is an accessible and attractive tutorial guide for sourcing and using essential oils. The introduction and first section of the book covers materials, sourcing, quality standards, and a little bit on scents and how they can affect mood and perception. There's also a timeline with some interesting history and how the essential oils we use today came down to us and how they were used historically.
There's an herbal compendium with entries for 20 of the most useful and popular essential oils. Each of the entries includes the botanical (Latin) name as well as some uses and interesting info about each one as well as a recipe (edible or non-edible) to try.
The next four chapters contain specific recipes for everything from skincare to home remedies to culinary uses. The compendium also includes links and materials lists for further investigation as well as a bibliography, recipe suggestions, and other info.
The photography is mostly from stock sources, but is clear and attractively presented.
Well done and useful guide. It would make a nice gift or addition to the home library of an enthusiastic gardener or aromatherapy fan.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
