Drugs and Foods from Little-Known Plants : : Notes in Harvard University Herbaria / / Siri von Reis Altschul.
The medicinal properties of plants have been of interest to society for centuries and continue to be a subject of modern research. Yet too often research has been predicated upon poorly identified plant material and secondary sources of information. Much of what we know about the use of plants as dr...
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