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Healing Spices Handbook

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Spices do more than just flavor food! This introductory illustrated guide shows how spices can maintain optimal health and treat common ailments, and offers healing recipes. Easy to follow, approachable, and authoritative, this is the essential reference to using spices… Read More
CBD Handbook

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An authoritative, approachable, and illustrated guide to the latest trend in wellness: CBD. This is your essential reference to hemp-based cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis that boasts powerful medicinal properties for physical and mental ailments. It breaks… Read More
Collagen Handbook

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An authoritative, illustrated, and easy-to-follow guide to collagen and how it can enhance your health—from rejuvenating hair and skin to treating bones and joints. Collagen, in the form of supplements and additives, and in natural sources, has become one of… Read More
Healing Herbs Handbook

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Naturally Healthy Today, more and more people are trying to live healthily and fight illness without resorting to the pharmacy—and they are turning to herbs to achieve their goal. This approachable handbook, with photographs for easy identification, helps… Read More

Barbara Brownell Grogan

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Barbara Brownell Grogan, principal for Rivanna Publishing Ventures, is former editor-in-chief of National Geographic Books and a certified health coach through New York’s Institute for Integrative Nutrition. At National Geographic she developed the health line of reference books. She is coauthor of 500 Time-Tested Home Remedies and the Science Behind Them and editor of USDA’s Guide to Infant Nutrition, 2018. Barbara and a team of health writers post a monthly column, “The Remedy Chicks,” at everydayhealth.com. She lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Deanna Gabriel Vierck, CCH CN, is a certified clinical herbalist and holds a BS in Biology, Public Relations, and Earth Science from Central Missouri State University. Deanna received her clinical training at the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism. She lives in Boulder, CO.

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