National Geographic Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine
- ISBN-10
- 1426202938
- ISBN-13
- 9781426202933
- Category
- Alternative medicine
- Pages
- 415
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Authors
- Rebecca L. Johnson, Steven Foster
Description
An illustrated compendium of information on plants and their diverse therapeutic properties and benefits brings together folklore, scientific research, and medical theory to describe hundreds of plants, their origins and geographic distribution, cultivation, and medical applications. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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