Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal MedicineIncluding the latest developments in the field of herbal medicine, this classic bestseller presents a fascinating account of the ideas, personalities, advances, and vicissitudes that have shaped the course of medicine and pharmacology in the Western world. The author provides an eloquent and engaging account of the use of herbal medicine from prehistoric times to the present, reaffirming the incalculable value of medicinal plants in the healing arts. She presents a strong case for the cyclical emergence of alternative medicine at times (such as our own) when allopathic methods of treatment have lost their safety and efficacy. |
Contents
The Medicine of Mankind | 1 |
Medicine in Transition | 15 |
The New Disease and the New Medicine | 29 |
The Revolutionary | 40 |
The Quacks Charter | 51 |
All Manner of Minerals | 63 |
Galen or Paracelsus? | 73 |
The SeventeenthCentury Superwoman | 85 |
Coffinism | 188 |
Dr Coffin versus Dr Skelton | 202 |
Fruitless Medication | 217 |
Regulars and Rivals | 230 |
Magic Bullets | 244 |
Return to Nature | 257 |
The Price of Miracles | 276 |
The French Lesson | 286 |
lndian Physic | 96 |
Horrid Electuaries | 106 |
Systematic Slaughter | 120 |
The English Practice | 126 |
The Foxglove Saga | 137 |
Heroic Medicine | 148 |
Roots and Herbs | 155 |
Botanic Warfare | 166 |
The Age of Calomel | 180 |
Into Europe | 300 |
Phytomedicines | 316 |
The Green People | 331 |
Burning the Library of Amazonia | 346 |
Herbal Futures | 364 |
384 | |
404 | |
413 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American antimony apothecaries Arab Association began bleeding blood Botanic Britain British called calomel century chemists Chinese cited clinical Coffinites College comfrey compounds course Culpeper cure death developed disease doctors doses drugs early Eclectic England English Ethnobotany Europe European extract fever Galen garlic guaiac healers healing herbal medicine herbal practitioners herbalists herbs Heroic Medicine Hippocrates homoeopaths Ibid Indian Institute Journal Lapraz later learned lobelia London materia medica medi Medical Herbalists medical profession medicinal plants ment mercury Michael McIntyre mineral modern native natural Paracelsan Paracelsus Paris patients Personal communication pharmaceutical Pharmacopoeia pharmacy physicians phytomedicines phytotherapy plant medicines poison popular powerful practice prescribed prescriptions produced professional published purging quacks Regular remedies root Samuel Thomson scurvy sick side effects Skelton soon success surgeons syphilis therapeutic therapy Thomson Thomsonian tinctures tion traditional treatment turned Valnet wrote