Radical Remedies: An Herbalist’s
Guide to Empowered Self-Care, 2021
A modern, approachable holistic health guide that focuses on physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being and the ways herbalism can enrich our lives.
Easy to use recipes, everyday self-care practices, and an extensive resource sections allow readers to find the herbs and tools to best meet their evolving needs.
Sharing in-depth herb profiles on over thirty of the most versatile herbs, this book shows how building relationships with herbs can be used to remedy stress, depression, and insomnia, soothe tension in the body, and comfort a broken heart. With insights on gut-brain axis and emotional balance, seasonality and ritual, flower essences, holistic nutrition, and the importance of nurturing both personal and collective wellbeing through resilient and robust networks of care.
245 pages, hard cover. Available wherever books are sold
Illustrations by Elana Gabrielle
Published by Roost Publishing, distributed by Penguin Random House
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“This book offers the clearest breakdown of everything from energetic herbalism to intersectional politics. Get this book for everyone you love!”
Lauren Haynes, herbalist and founder of Wooden Spoon Herbs
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“This wonderful book is an excellent introduction to claiming your birthright—a relationship with herbs that can support your own health in these chaotic and challenging times. Brittany lays out simple ways to recognize patterns in the body and tells you how to best match the plant medicines for those patterns. This is such a helpful resource for anyone wanting to learn about herbal medicine.”
Janet Kent, co-founder of Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine