Healing Foods

With Healing Foods, prolific author Margaret Roberts brings nature's pharmacy into our homes and into our lives. Step by step, and easily accessible, she showcases the superfoods and warns of the danger foods, and lists the ailments we suffer from, offering comforting natural ways of correcting and rebuilding our health and regaining our vitality.

More than 150 common and lesser-known vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices and other food plants that are the building blocks of good health are described in full, covering aspects such as:

The plant's history and origin
Instructions on how to grow the plant
Medicinal uses and major nutrients
Ideas on how to include the plant in the diet, along with recipes
Cosmetic and household uses and other interesting facts and hints