Healing Foods

Healing Foods is essential reading for everyone seeking health and energy in our increasingly stress-filled world. Margaret Roberts brings nature's pharmacy into our homes and lives, showcasing superfoods whilst warning of danger foods and listing common ailments we suffer from.

More than 150 common and lesser-known vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices and other food plants—the building blocks of good health—are described in full. Each entry covers the plant's history and origin, growing instructions, medicinal uses and major nutrients, dietary inclusion ideas with recipes, plus cosmetic and household uses with interesting facts and hints.

The book concludes with an extensive A–Z list of ailments, providing information on which danger foods to avoid and which superfoods, supplements and other therapies to consider for relief from over 100 common ailments.

Step by step, Roberts offers comforting natural ways of correcting and rebuilding health whilst regaining vitality through nature's bounty.