"There isn't really one web page of this captivating publication which doesn't comprise anything to curiosity the typical reader in addition to the intense scholar. appeared easily as a historical past of flora, it provides to the thrill of the country." — B. E. Todd, Spectator.
If you must understand how pleurisy root, lungwort, and abscess root received their names, how poison ivy used to regard rheumatism, or how garlic guarded opposed to the Bubonic Plague, seek advice A glossy Herbal. This 20th-century model of the medieval Herbal is as wealthy in medical truth and folklore as its predecessors and is both encyclopedic in assurance. From aconite to zedoary, now not an herb, grass, fungus, shrub or tree is neglected; and unusual and beautiful discoveries approximately even the commonest of crops watch for the reader.
Traditionally, an natural mixed the folks ideals and stories approximately crops, the medicinal houses (and elements used) of the herbs, and their botanical category. yet Mrs. Grieve has prolonged and enlarged the culture; her insurance of asafetida, bearberry, broom, chamomile, chickweed, dandelion, dock, elecampane, almond, eyebright, fenugreek, moss, fern, figwort, gentian, Hart's tongue, indigo, acacia, jaborandi, kava kava, lavender, pimpernel, rhubarb, squill, sage, thyme, sarsaparilla, unicorn root, valerian, woundwort, yew, and so forth. — greater than 800 forms in all — comprises moreover tools of cultivation; the chemical parts, dosages, and arrangements of extracts and tinctures, unknown to prior herbalists; attainable financial and beauty houses, and distinct illustrations, from root to bud, of 161 plants.
Of the numerous remarkable crops coated in Herbal, might be the main attention-grabbing are the toxic forms — hemlock, poison oak, aconite, and so on. — whose poisons, sometimes, serve clinical reasons and whose antidotes (if identified) are given intimately. And of the numerous designated beneficial properties, maybe the main attention-grabbing are the loads of recipes and directions for making ointments, creams, sauces, wines, and fruit brandies like bilberry and carrot jam, elderberry and mint vinegar, sagina sauce, and cucumber lotion for sunburn; and the loads of prescriptions for tonics and liniments for bronchitis, arthritis, dropsy, jaundice, worried rigidity, dermis illness, and different diseases. ninety six plates, 161 illustrations.