It provides links to information but does not replace the care of a qualified health practitioner. An all-round site for integrative medicine, natural health, and alternative therapies. The link to WWW Resources leads to many topics. This major work on ethnobotany opens with a chapter on ethnohistory. Other chapters address the names and actions of plants, illness treated with plants, and listings of medicinal plants.
Appendixes cover the topics of safety and pharmacologically active phytochemicals.
An herbal is a book about plants, especially with reference to their medicinal properties. Because herbs were the earliest pharmaceuticals, herbals are a rich and important source of history in medicine and pharmacology. In this treatise of five books, which was used until the late Renaissance, Dioscorides described drugs of plant, animal, and mineral origin and gave information on drug dosage, administration, and specific uses. This translation from the Greek was first published 1516. Text based on the French Arbolayre or Grant Herbier.