Medieval Herbal Remedies
Medieval Herbal Remedies

Author: Anne Van Arsdall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1136613889

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This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.

The New Healing Herbs
The New Healing Herbs

Author: Michael Castleman

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2001-04-21

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9781579543044

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The newly revised and updated reference guide to herbal medicine offers readers sound advice on how to use more than 100 popular plants for healing purposes.

Medieval Herbals
Medieval Herbals

Author: Minta Collins

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780802083135

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Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.

Culpeper's Color Herbal
Culpeper's Color Herbal

Author: Nicholas Culpeper

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781402744945

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Updated and illustrated in full color, this classic retains the charm and elegance of Culpeper's 17th-century text. "Beautiful, affordable and particularly relevant...identifies both medicinal virtues and modern uses of each plant. In addition to beautiful color illustrations to help with identification of each plant, readers can contrast the ideas of the 16th and 17th centuries [with] those of today."--"Alive."

Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica
Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica

Author: Saint Hildegard

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780892816613

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Saint, mystic, healer, visionary, and fighter, Hildegard von Bingen stands as one of the great figures in the history of women in medicine. She was renowned for her healing work and her original theories of medicine.