A modern herbal. Volume 1, A-H: the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs

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"There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regarded simply as a history of flowers, it adds to the joys of the country." — B. E. Todd,Spectator.If you want to know how pleurisy root, lungwort, and abscess root got their names, how poison ivy used to treat rheumatism, or how garlic guarded against the Bubonic Plague, consultA Modern Herbal. This 20th-century version of the medievalHerbalis as rich in scientific fact and folklore as its predecessors and is equally encyclopedic in coverage. From aconite to zedoary, not an herb, grass, fungus, shrub or tree is overlooked; and strange and wonderful discoveries about even the most common of plants await the reader.Traditionally, an herbal combined the folk beliefs and tales about plants, the medicinal properties (and parts used) of the herbs, and their botanical classification. But Mrs. Grieve has...
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Характеристики
- ФИО Автора
- C. F.
Grieve
Leyel
Manya
Marshall
Maud - Язык
- Английский
- Серия
- Dover books on plants and animals
- ISBN
- 9780486227986
- Дата выхода
- 2015