The Greek physician Dioscorides, writing in the first century AD, mentioned about 400 herbs. One of the earliest Chinese herbals – Shen Nong’s Materia Medica, dating from the first or second century AD – lists 365 healing remedies, most of them plants but including a few mineral and animal extracts. There are more than 250 safe treatments to help alleviate common complaintsfrom ordinary coughs, colds, and headaches to special treatments for skin conditions, digestive problems, and children's illnesses even detailed lists of herbs for the elderly.
A special how-to section explains the preparation of herbal remedies. Each entry details the plant's chemical constituents, its actions, and its therapeutic applicationsfrom exotic ma huang, used in China to treat asthma for 5,000 years, to humble cabbage, which has been effective against stomach ulcers in clinical tests. All the parts of the plants that can be used medicinally are shown, from fresh flower petals or leaves to the root, bark, and juice.
The book includes more than 120 medicinal herbs with important therapeutic properties and a section on their historical uses, The Complete Medicinal Herbal is a must for every home book shelve. Urn:oclc:861519534 Republisher_date 20120901032256 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120828042619 Scanner Medicinal Herbal is a fully illustrated practical guide to the healing properties of herbs. Urn:lcp:completemedicina00odyp:epub:9631096a-d74f-4fe7-9736-9004d5593ebe Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier completemedicina00odyp Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8bg3xh7b Isbn 9781564581877ġ56458187X Lccn 92053451 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1744485M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:16:19 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA155507 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London DonorĬityofsausalitolibrary Edition 1st American ed.
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