HERBS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS KNOWLEDGE CARDS rose with an emphasis on medicinals—the

with an emphasis on medicinals—the mainstay of contemporary practice

By Janet and Stewart Farrar

utilizing a precise

modern language

HERBS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS KNOWLEDGE CARDS rose with an emphasis on medicinals—theBefore the science of pharmacology was confined to the laboratory, all medicines were remedies made from plant materials. Healers from the Neolithic shamans to the eminent physicians of the Enlightenment made their own poultices, tinctures, and salves from plants that grew in their gardens or in the wild. Few abilities were more important to a doctor than a precise identification of the correct flora. The 48 beautiful nineteenth century botanical