The natural history of medicinal plants / Judith Sumner ; foreword by Mark J. Plotkin.
Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to treat fever, pain, and inflammation. Today it is synthesized in the laboratory, and its use as an antico...
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Language: | English |
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Portland, Or. :
Timber Press,
[2000]
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QK99.A1 S86 2000 |
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