Descriptions of hundreds of plants, both well-known and overlooked.

    HyltonTwo - The Healing Herbs / Nelson CoonThree - The Culinary Herbs / Louise HydeFour - The Aromatic Herbs / Bonnie FisherFive - The Colorful Herbs / Barbara FoustSix - Cultivating The Herbs / Heinz GrotzkeSeven - The Companionable Herbs / William H. HyltonEight - Landscaping with Herbs / Marion WilburAppendix A - An Herbal EncyclopediaAppendix B - GlossaryAppendix C - BibliographyAppendix D - A List of Sources

    These are fully illustrated and described, and they include all the popular herbs as well as a number of less commonly seen."

    Standard work on the subject.

    

    The Total Guide to Indoor Planting:-How to pick plants that grow beautifully indoors-When water is your plant's worst enemy-Grow your own salad on your windowsill-All about those plants that love to hide in dimly lighted corners-Raising plants from pits and seeds-Getting the mealy bugs and other disasters before they get you-How you can turn your terrace into a private rock garden-And hundreds of other plant-growing and protecting tips that can put a little bit of the country into apartment living.

    For thousands of years, they have played a fundamental role in the healing arts, right up to the present day. From the beginning, they were linked to the material of religion, were key factors in the cultural life of many societies, and became intertwined with magic. They remain today part of both the art and science of medicine. Medicinal Plants and Their History recounts the long and fascinating story of plants and herbal remedies — the cultural traditions that used them, the books and treatises written about them, the tangential events that influenced them or were influenced by them.From the ancient Chinese treatment for hay fever (recently proved to be scientifically sound) to today’s sophisticated extraction of essential plant oils, the book details how various civilizations have used and misused plant remedies. Common practices of Egyptian, Indian, Hebraic, Greek, and Roman times are covered; as are those of the early Christian era, the Middle Ages, and sixteenth-, seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century England. Coming into the twentieth century, there is a full description of modern cultivation of medicinal plants and the contemporary drug trade. The case of plants and herbs in magic and religion, the contributions of famous herbalists and physicians (notably Hippocrates, Pliny, Dioscorides, Sydenham), famous English and European herbals, medical organization and education in the Middle Ages, and the first British pharmacopoeia, are some of the related events described.One of the most interesting and informative chapters is the one detailing the medicinal properties of 40 major orders of British wild plants — over 150 plants in all. Whether the problem was fever, whooping cough, kidney trouble, or ague, there was a remedy for it. And, because many traditional remedies have a basis in scientific fact, you will discover which are still being used today.