medicinal plants

Provides descriptions of each part of seventy common wild plants, including leaves, stalks, flowers, fruit, seeds, and roots; and features information about the medicinal and practical uses of each specimen. Includes photographs and illustrations.

Presents a brief history of gardening, and explores the history of gardening in seventeenth-century New England, looking at what settlers found already growing upon their arrival in America, and discussing garden plans, and the use of the plants for food and medicine.

Describes the physical characteristics and natural habitats of a wide variety of plants with poisonous, medicinal, and/or supposed magical properties.

Profiles more than 550 medicinal plants, providing color photos and details on their habitats, cultivation, related species, key constituents and actions, research, and traditional and current uses; discusses herbal medicine's history and its practice around the world; and includes recipes for several home remedies.

Marijuana is the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and the world. Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full color illustrations this title examines marijuana as a drug.

Describes plants that natives of the rainforest use for food and medicine, and discusses how these plants will become obsolete if the rainforests disappear.

Describes, in simple language, with photos and illustrations, the science of plant life from the rain forest, and describes their powerful medicinal value.