A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses, Volume 2

Maud Grieve

DOVER PUBN Incorporated, Jun 1, 1971 - Fiction - 888 pages

If you want to know how pleurisy root, lungwort and abscess root got their names, how poison ivy is used to treat rheumatishm, or how garlic guarded against the Bubonic Plague, consult "A Modern Herbal." This twentieth-century version of the medieval Herbal is 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.

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Review: A Modern Herbal

User Review  - Evie Maiolo - Goodreads

Excellent reference book, with good historical information on each herb, that is difficult to find in more modern texts.. A must have if you are a herbalist or practitioner dispensing herbal formulations.

Review: A Modern Herbal, Vol. I

User Review  - Spider Goddess - Goodreads

I will definitely be on the hunt for volume two of this set. It has history, lore, medicinal, scientific, etc. Love it!!

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses, Volume 2; A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses, Maud Grieve; Volume 2 of Modern Herbal
• Author: Maud Grieve
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: DOVER PUBN Incorporated, 1971
• ISBN: 0486227995, 9780486227993
• Length: 888 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Gardening / Herbs; Health & Fitness / Herbal Medications; Nature / General