An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however, had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans' efforts to ac…
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…
"Eve's Herbs explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?"--BOOK JACKET. "Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks wh…
Auteur beschrijft hoe vrouwen sinds de Egyptische oudheid tot de vijftiende eeuw vertrouwden op een uitgebreide pharmacopeia aan abortusopwekkende kruiden en anticonceptiva om vruchtbaarheid te reguleren. Hij vraagt zich af hoe deze kennis, die in vroegere tijden zo ruim voorhan…
"Eve's Herbs explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?"--BOOK JACKET. "Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks wh…
"Translated into Anglo-Saxon around the year 1000, a collection of medicinal remedies known as the Old English Herbarium enjoyed wide popularity throughout Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Its history was later abandoned in the mid-nineteenth cent…
"Translated into Anglo-Saxon around the year 1000, a collection of medicinal remedies known as the Old English Herbarium enjoyed wide popularity throughout Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Its history was later abandoned in the mid-nineteenth cent…
"In this compendium of information on herbal medicine, Medicinal Plants of the World, Ivan A. Ross comprehensively documents the medicinal value of twenty-seven major plant species widely used around the world in medicinal formulations. The book's exhaustive summary of available…
De materia medica
by Dioscorides, Pedanius, Beck, Lily Y
fromAltertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien