Quinsy – Medicinal Plants

Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae), in addition to serving as an occasional food, is a medicinal plant...

Family: Violaceae Part used: aerial parts There are over 90 Viola species in Europe. The...

The Renaissance writers rehearse the themes. A number, for example Gerard, Parkinson and Dodoens, relate...

The plant does not appear in Cook or Ellingwood in the USA. The National Botanic...

May 19, 2011 Herbalist Off Hyssop,

From Dioscorides and Galen we have a picture of a warming herb, dispelling cold by...

May 19, 2011 Herbalist Off Hyssop,

By the 18th century the variety of preparations appears to have been reduced. According to...

May 19, 2011 Herbalist Off Hyssop,

Late 19th and early 20th century authors are still following Dioscorides, Robinson (1868) almost exactly...

Dioscorides (IV 38) sets the scene for all later authors and compares raspberry to the...

There are a number of examples of trees on which Judas was said to have...

Medicinal Plants