Plantes sauvages à l'usage des randonneurs (Guy Lefrançois)

Please note: this book is in FRENCH

This book is not a new guide for the naturalist. It allows an easy way to recognize hundreds of large and small, among the most common on the roads, the banks of streams and coasts wild plants. All those that cannot escape from the eyes of the layman who sees, sniffs and possibly picks up. Wild Garlic, burdock, mullein, wild chicory, groundfumes, hypericum, oregano, plantain, samphire, willow, elder ... Not to mention some of the most toxic.From what the feast can begin: in about sixty receipts easy to make, the author declines the delicious uses of the named and collected plants. It is by no means question of manual of survival: plants are envisaged as condiments, vegetables of accompaniment, materials to make soups and salads. Scallop in the varec, the crepe in stinging nettles, melted in the garlic of the bears, the mackerel in the wild fennel, the noodles in the flowers of locust trees, omelet in blueberries, raclette in the oregano and in the wild thyme, the salad of pourpier, has supper of hazelnuts.The author, naturothérapeute, the medical herbalist, do not forget to give advice to look after the most common cuts: bulbs, sunburns, insect bites. And the most spread at the walker: the fatigue.The guide is completed by some tips and tricks: how to make a brush in dishes in the middle of nowhere, or some shampoo,washing powder; how to make a whistle, even make of the fire by friction