Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine [Paperback]

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.Barbara Griggs, a renowned journalist and researcher in the field of herbalism, is also the author ofThe Green Witch Herbal. She lives in London.Foreword to the Second Editionby Michael McIntyre

Forewordby Norman Farnsworth

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Medicine of Mankind

2. Medicine in Transition

3. The New Disease and the New Medicine

4. The Revolutionary

5. The Quacks' Charter

6. 'All Manner of Minerals'

7. 'Galen or Paracelsus?'

8. The Seventeenth-Century Superwoman

9. Indian Physic

10. 'Horrid Electuaries'

11. 'Systematic Slaughter'

12. The English Practice

13. The Foxglove Saga

14. Heroic Medicine

15. Roots and Herbs

16. Botanic Warfare

17. The Age of Calomel

18. 'Coffinism'

19. Dr. Coffin versus Dr. Skelton

20. Fruitless Medication

21. Regulars and Rivals

22. Magic Bullets

23. Return to Nature

24. The Price of Miracles

25. The French Lesson

26. Into Europe

27. Phytomedicines

28. 'The Green People'

29. Burning the Library of Amazonia

30. Herbal Futures

Notes

Bibliography

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