AUSTRALIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS

by E.V LASSAK and T McCARTHY

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New softcover book. Second edition published 2011, 303 pages, black and white line drawings and full-colour photography.

Australian Medicinal Plants is an invaluable resource for all those interested in herbal medicine, Aboriginal culture and Australian flora.

Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since earliest recorded history all over the world. Australia is no exception, its varied flora providing the Aborigines with their medicines. With the arrival of Europeans much of this knowledge was overtaken by modern drugs and techniques but today there is a revival of interest in traditional medicines.

Erich Lassak and Tara McCarthy's Australian Medicinal Plants covers both the Aboriginal use of native plants and how the first settlers learned from the Aborigines their medicinal values. There is information on the plants themselves, how they were used, what their known pharmacological constituents are, where to find them and how to prepare them. Hundreds of species are covered, helpfully arranged in chapters depending on their use: for fevers, painkillers, antiseptics, digestive disorders and more. Colour photographs of many of the species aid in their identification.

The book features:

• many hundreds of species covered in detail
• colour photographs of many species enabling quick and easy identification
• where to find particular species
• and how to prepare them for medicinal use
• interesting historical facts on the Aboriginal uses

This new edition of Australian Medicinal Plants has been completely updated and revised by Erich Lassak.

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Australian Medicinal Plants by E.V Lassak and T McCarthy