Before the pharmacy existed, the garden was the medicine chest. The relationship between human beings and medicinal plants is among the oldest sustained forms of knowledge on earth — older than writing, older than formal religion, continuous through every culture that has survived in sufficient relationship with the natural world to know which plants to boil, which to steep, which to dry and store for winter, and which to use fresh from the morning dew. This comprehensive handbook on herbal teas covers the full range of the practice — from the daily ritual cup that settles the nervous system at morning or evening, to therapeutic preparations used for specific conditions. The book organises its material by both plant and purpose:…