This guide is packed with delicious recipes and healthy tonics to treat specific symptoms and rejuvenate the body. Choose from rosehip tea, high in vitamin C to ward off a cold, or chamomile tea to promote sleep. There are recipes to help treat indigestion, coughs, headaches, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, as well as to promote energy and inner peace. For children as well as adults, there are plenty of old fashioned cordials to beat the winter blues, such as elderberry rob and old-fashioned lemonade. All include ingredients that are beneficial to the health. With 50 tried and tested recipes, all made using ingredients that are readily available, herbal teas promote well-being and provide a gentle self treatment of everyday common illnesses.

Jessica Houdret has a passion for herbs. She is a regular contributor of articles on herbs to national publications and has lectured at summer schools and plant centres. She has written books on cooking with herbs, herb gardening and the history of herbs, and is the author of The Home Apothecary, a guide to growing and making your own herbal treatments for common ailments.