medical botany

Discusses the health benefits of plants, from aloe vera to quinine.

An identification guide to over five hundred medicinal plants, with information on the known uses of each plant, line drawings, and color photographs.

"Tata Gus teaches his grandson Aaron how to use natural healing remedies, and in the process helps the members of his family and his neighbors"--Provided by publisher.

A guide to using herbs to relieve stress and anxiety and strengthen the nervous system, profiling twenty-one herbs and offering recipes for teas, capsules, tinctures, and more.

Photographs and simple text help students learn how plants are used, describing plants for food, plants for fuel, and medicinal uses for plants.

"Healing Plants helps young readers find the answers to questions and learn about the incredible health benefits of plants, from aloe vera to quinine."--Publisher.

Presents a history of botanical medicine that investigates how plants have rightly and wrongly been used to treat diseases, heal wounds, and ease the mind.

Discusses the history of the use of plants to heal disease, looks at how Western societies have reacted to natural medicines, and includes a catalog of over one hundred healing herbs.

This book describes step-by-step preparations of infusions, tea blends, decoctions, tinctures, ointments, liniments, and other uses for herbs.

Provides information about the history, habitat, identifying characteristics, and uses of over one hundred medicinal wild plants found in North America, arranged alphabetically, and including individual color illustrations.