At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than five hundred kinds of healing plants. More than three hundred new color photos illustrate their flowers, leaves, and fruits. The updated descriptive[...]
A duke must choose wisely . . .Leopold Dautry, the notorious Duke of Villiers, must wed quickly and nobly--and his choices, alas, are few. The Duke of Montague's daughter, Eleanor, is exquisitely beautiful and fiercely intelligent. Villiers betroths himself to her without further ado.After all, no o[...]
Truly the world's leading authority of medical plants and herbs, James Duke writes frankly on buying, growing, organizing, and using botanical plants in this book that has already established The Green Pharmacy as the ultimate herbal reference with more than 800,000 copies in print. Dr. Duke has app[...]
A catalog that includes more than 15,000 phytochemical constituents from over 1,000 higher plant species. It covers the generally-recognized-as-safe (GRAS) herbs and at least 250 important food and medicinal plants.[...]
A Complete Guide to 180 Healing Herbs-- From America's Favorite Herbalist
In this handy companion to his best-selling book, "The Green Pharmacy," leading herbal authority James A. Duke, Ph.D., delivers the lowdown on virtually every healing herb available in today's marketplace: its description [...]
Upon its publication more than a decade ago, Dr. James Duke's "The Green Pharmacy" quickly set the standard for consumer herb references. A favorite of laypeople and professionals alike, the book sold more than a million copies and solidified the author's reputation as one of the world's foremost au[...]
"Let food be your medicine, medicine your food." -Hippocrates, 2400 B.C. When the "Father of Medicine" uttered those famous words, spices were as important for medicine, embalming, preserving food, and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts t[...]