The herb book

By Pierre Lieutaghi.
Editions Actes Sud. 517 pages.

From the end of the 20th century to the present day, medicinal plants have regained an important and paradoxical place in our urban societies. Better and better known for their constituents and effects, they have often (re)become common remedies but in the guise of classic medicines, much in demand in cosmetology and dietetics, yet they are less and less perceived in their primary nature as plant beings.
Le Livre des bonnes herbes, in its twofold concern to make both the plant and its uses better known, never forgets that "simples" are more than just standard remedies: they are living beings whose friendly, attentive approach is already the beginning of trust. And in this encounter, where frequenting the meadow doesn't contradict what you've learned in the laboratory, freedom has its place!
This third revised edition of the now classic "Livre des bonnes herbes", a manual for learning about a familiar flora rich in valuable therapeutic offerings, accessible to all, insists on seeing in the use of simple remedies a proof of autonomy still alive at the edge of the closed field of large (and costly) care techniques.