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Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 2008. The desire to prolong life and improve its quality is as old as life itself, and many non-western cultures - particularly Native Americans and the peoples of Asia and India - have never lost their knowledge of and belief in the efficacy of herbs in achieving this aim. Many herbs are believed to rejuvenate the body and repair tissue waste; others are thought to provide... Read more
INTRODUCTION I. NUTRITIOUS HERBS Agar-Agar; Almond; Apricot; Artichoke; Arrow-root; Bamboo; Banana; Barley; Beans; Birds' nests; Bombax; Breadfruit Tree; Broom Corn; Burra Gookeroo; Canadian Bitter Root; Candle nut tree; Canterbury Bells; Cassava; Ceropegia; Chocolate Tree; Convolvulus; Coreopsis; Cotton-root; Cowhage; Cow-wheat; Crown-Imperial; Cyclamen; Dahlia; Damiana; Dendrobium; Durian-tree; Eryngo; Euryale Ferox; False Acacia or Locust Tree; Fenugreek; Fritillary; Ginseng; Gobernadora; Gold of Pleasure; Hazel; Hungry grass; Honesty; Hydrocotyle; Hygrophilia, Ice Plant; Kava Kava; Lady's Slipper; Lily of Kamschatka; Lotus; Love-lies-bleeding; Lucerne; Maize; Manna ash; Maple; Mastic; Michaelmas Daisies; Mushrooms; Musk seed; Olive; Orchid; Palms; Potato; Rice; Rocket; Sago (see Palms); Service berry; Spurrey; Star of Bethlehem; Sugar Cane; Sunflower; Sweet Chestnut; Sweet William; Teluga Potato; Tulip; Vanilla; Vegetable Marrows; Vine; Walnut; Wheat II . BITTER HERBS Angostura; Balmony; Barberry; Bayberry; Bogbean; Boldo; Calumba; Camomile; Centaury; Chiretta; Dandelion; Fringe tree; Gentian; Gold Thread; Liverwort; Oak; Quassia; Rauwolfia; Simaruba; Tulip Tree; Wormwood; Yellow- Wort III. TONIC HERBS Acacia; Anemone; Box; Burr-Marigold; Celery Cherry, Clemdendron; Combretum; Dodder; Everlasting flower; Heather, Herb-patience; Hollyhock; Hornbeam; Horsetail; Hydrangea; Jacob's Ladder; Jasmine; Labrador Tea; Lady's Tresses; Love-in-a-mist; Lupins; Magnolia; Maidenhair; Mango; arjoram; Marshwort; Masterwort; Papaw; Peach; Platycodon; Poplar; Pothos; Rhubarb; Rose; Rose of Jericho; Rue; Saff-Floll'er; St. John's wort; Scurvy Grass; Spindle; Squaw Lille; Sweet Cicely; Sweet Sultan; Tansy; Teasels; Thistles; Wafer Ash; Wallflower; Wild Cinchona; Willow's; Yellow Parilla
Biography
HILDA LEVEL - Mrs C.F. Leyel - was a leading expert on herbalism, a Fellow of the Royal Institute and an officier of I'Academie Francaise.
