by ThomasBewick (Illustrator), TessDarwin (Author)
To our ancestors, there was no such thing as a weed. Every growing thing had a role to play in daily life - as an ingredient for food, as medicine, as a dye or as fodder for livestock. Tess Darwin reveals the forgotten secrets of Scottish plant lore in fascinating detail, showing how many of the plant remedies which were dismissed by modern scientists as superstition have since been found to be effective in treating illness and have led to the creation of many new drugs.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Publisher: Mercat Press
Published: Nov 1996
ISBN 10: 1873644604
ISBN 13: 9781873644607