Breverton's Complete Herbal (eBook)

This incredibly diverse compendium, based on Culpeper's The English Physitian and Compleat Herball of 1653, contains just about everything you'll ever need to know about the properties and provenance of herbs and spices of the world. From amara dulcis to yarrow, all-heal to viper's bugloss, Breverton's Complete Herbal is a treasury of over 250 herbs and their uses.Which miraculous leaves keep migraines at bay? How can garlic be used as an aphrodisiac? What plant has flowers that alleviate asthma? How can hazelnuts help oily skin? Which culinary crops can you grow in your garden? From herbal remedies to home cooking, essential oils to ointments, this book contains over 400 years of wisdom about the properties of plants the world over.

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This incredibly diverse compendium contains just about everything you'll ever need to know about the properties and provenance of herbs and spices of the world. From amara dulcis to yarrow, all-heal to viper's bugloss, Breverton's Complete Herbal is a modern day treasury of over 250 herbs and their uses. Terry Breverton provides a reworking of a Nicholas Culpeper classic text for a modern day audience. Arranged alphabetically, this book describes over 250 herbs and spices as well as feature entries on scented herb/medicinal gardens, the great herbalists and New World Herbs not included in Culpepper's original text. Each entry provides a description of the herb: its appearance and botanical features, a brief history of its uses in medicine, dyeing and cuisine to bizarre remedies and concoctions designed to get rid of all manner of real and imaginary ailments.