Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1997 - Health & Fitness - 448 pages
Including 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
Notes
384
Bibliography
404
Index
413
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Barbara Griggs (1932–2022) was a renowned journalist and researcher in the field of herbalism.

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