<em>Backyard Medicine</em> is a beautiful book, packed with nearly 300color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can makeyourself. It gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic,and world-wide application of the fifty common plants that it covers.It is the sort of book you can enjoy as an armchair reader or use toharvest and make your own herbal remedies from wild plants. Anyone whowants to improve his or her health in the same way that human-kind hasdone for centuries around the world, by using local wild plants andherbs, will find this book fascinating and useful.