AUSTRALIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS

by E.V LASSAK and T McCARTHY

New softcover book. Second edition published 2011, 303 pages, black and white line drawings and full-colour photography.

Australian Medicinal Plants is an invaluable resource for all those interested in herbal medicine, Aboriginal culture and Australian flora.

Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since earliest recorded history all over the world. Australia is no exception, its varied flora providing the Aborigines with their medicines. With the arrival of Europeans much of this knowledge was overtaken by modern drugs and techniques but today there is a revival of interest in traditional medicines.

Erich Lassak and Tara McCarthy's Australian Medicinal Plants covers both the Aboriginal use of native plants and how the first settlers learned from the Aborigines their medicinal values. There is information on the plants themselves, how they- there is more detail about this item at the full website (you are viewing a mobile version)