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Book Review: Herbal Medicines

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth M. Williamson

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
39 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0951-418X

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✦ Synopsis

1995,308 pp., f30 (U.K.), €35 (overseas).

'Herbal Medicines' aims to provide factual information about those herbs that are ingredients in products on sale in the UK. Despite the flowery cover it is not a 'coffee-table' herbal book but a serious source of scientific evidence supporting (or otherwise) anecdotal and folk-lore claims made for these medicines. As such it is

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