This is a modern compendium of herbal remedies and recipes. It has a chapter on beauty and hygiene, which explains how to make your own facial lotions, soaps and shampoos, how to massage with essential oils and how to create a herbal sauna. The kitchen and home section deals with culinary herbs and spices, and making herbal fly repellants, and the herbal remedies chapter includes an A-Z of herbal first aid, which covers a wide range of complaints, from sleeplessness to asthma, skin irritations to fatigue. The author writes a regular column for "Country Living" magazine on natural health, and her other books include: "Green Pharmacy", "Home Herbal" and "Superfoods" .