Medicines from the Earth. A Guide to Healing Plants. 1978. illustrated. 208 p. Cloth.

Contents: How to use this book/ The kingdom of plants/ The 247 mostbeneficial plants/ Reference section I: Plants and the ailments they canease/ Lexicon of the healing plants (with coloured illustrations anddescriptions of the 247 listed plants)/ Complaints and illnesses/ Reference section II: Plant remedies for common ailments/ The heritageof folk medicine/ The contribution of folk healers to the modern scienceof ethnopharmacology/ The basic techniques of herbal preparations (Howto prepare teas, compresses, and salves from herbs)/ Healing substancesand their effectiveness/ Reference section III: When and how to harvestplants/ The contents and properties of each plant)/ Epilogue: The future.