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Name: the curious herbal 1922
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Title: The curious herbal
Author: Armfield, Anne Constance Smedley
Language: angielski
Year: 2009
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Nonfiction
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141025148
Total pages: 42

Hatfield's Herbal is the story of how people all over Britain have used its wild plants throughout history, for reasons magical, mystical and medicinal. Gabrielle Hatfield has drawn on a lifetime's knowledge to describe the properties of over 150 native plants, and the customs that surround them: from predicting the weather with seaweed to using deadly nightshade to make ladies' pupils dilate appealingly, and from ensuring a husband's faithfulness with butterbur to warding off witches by planting a rowan tree. Filled with stories, folklore and remedies both strange and practical, this is a memorable and eye-opening guide to the richness of Britain's heritage.