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 2If 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. |
Contents
PERUVIAN BARK Cinchona Succirubra PLATE LXX Facing page | 628 |
PINE LARCH Pinus Larix PLATE LXXII | 636 |
POPPY WHITE Papaver Somniferum PLATE LXXIV | 652 |
RHATANY PERUVIAN Krameria Triandra PLATE LXXVI | 674 |
RHUBARB FRENCH Rheum Undulatum PLATE LXXVIII | 678 |
SAFFRON Crocus Sativus PLATE LXXX | 698 |
SARSAPARILLA JAMAICA Smilax Ornata PLATE LXXXI | 714 |
SEDGE SWEET Acorus Calamus PLATE LXXXII | 726 |
SENEGA Polygala Senega PLATE LXXXIV | 742 |
SPURGE EUPHORBIUM Euphorbia Resinifera PLATE LXXXVI | 766 |
TAMARIND Tamarindus Indica PLATE LXXXVIII | 788 |
THISTLE HOLY Carbenia Benedicta PLATE LXXXIX | 796 |
TORMENTIL Potentilla Tormentilla PLATE XCI | 820 |
VALERIAN COMMON Valeriana Officinalis PLATE XCIII | 846 |
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A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic ..., Volume 2 Maud Grieve No preview available - 1971 |
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