Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition - an Ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland
by David E. Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield

Don't let the title fool you! Many, many of the herbs mentioned in this book are plentiful elsewhere in the world, not just Britain and Ireland, making this a practical book for most people.

Assembled by two of the most distinguished botanical and ethnological scholars in Britain, this book chronicles the medicinal uses of more than 400 species used by the plain folk of Britain and Ireland. The history of these plants' usages has been mined from rich firsthand accounts captured by surveys, from more than 1000 manuscript volumes of the Irish Folklore Commission, and from close to 300 other published and unpublished sources.

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