While we appreciate the beauty of plants given as gifts and growing in our gardens, we rarely consider their power to heal.

In this book the author shows how this power can be harnessed and used in healing situations - both in the now widely practised natural therapies, such as aromatherapy, herbalism and homeopathy, and in the increasingly recognised field of colour therapy. She shows how plants and herbs can be used to enhance everyday life in a variety of simple but highly effective ways – in cosmetics, mediation and home decoration.

Helen Collins deals with people who are looking to improve their physical and spiritual wellbeing. She specialises in counselling, using her detailed knowledge of the obscure.