CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices
- ISBN-10
- 1420040480
- ISBN-13
- 9781420040487
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-09-27
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Author
- James A. Duke
Description
"Let food be your medicine, medicine your food."-Hippocrates, 2400 B.C.When the "Father of Medicine" uttered those famous words, spices were as important for medicine, embalming, preserving food, and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum, cinnamon, garlic, ginger
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