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Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition

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Description:So many people for so many years have been collecting and reporting the herbal remedies used by country folk that it must seem surprising that the resulting mass of data has not been brought together long since and surveyed overall. Certainly, it seemed surprising to the two of us, as interlopers from the world of botany. For more than a century and a half, records of where in Britain and Ireland each species of wild plant is known to occur (or have occurred) have been sedulously logged and published. So well established is this tradition that the regular disciplined effort that sustains it has come to be taken for granted.Unfortunately, the study of folklore failed to attract individuals with the necessary time and inclination to perform a similar service for records of plant use, and the magnitude of that task has increased with the passage of time. The problem is not so much the quantity of the information that exists as its scattered nature.Much of it is in rare, privately published, often ephemeral printed sources, many of them concerned only peripherally with folk medicine. There are hardly any libraries that combine the necessary open access to their shelves with a sufficiently representative collection of seemingly relevant titles to allow research to be concentrated in just a single place. Worse, though, there is even more material remaining unpublished than has found its way into print, and extracting that in repositories that happen to be distant can be costly in time and money, especially when repeated visits are required. Doubtful plant identifications and obscure or vaguely described ailments, to say nothing of the Celtic languages, are further difficulties that may have to be wrestled with even after a productive source has been located.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition. To get started finding Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: So many people for so many years have been collecting and reporting the herbal remedies used by country folk that it must seem surprising that the resulting mass of data has not been brought together long since and surveyed overall. Certainly, it seemed surprising to the two of us, as interlopers from the world of botany. For more than a century and a half, records of where in Britain and Ireland each species of wild plant is known to occur (or have occurred) have been sedulously logged and published. So well established is this tradition that the regular disciplined effort that sustains it has come to be taken for granted.Unfortunately, the study of folklore failed to attract individuals with the necessary time and inclination to perform a similar service for records of plant use, and the magnitude of that task has increased with the passage of time. The problem is not so much the quantity of the information that exists as its scattered nature.Much of it is in rare, privately published, often ephemeral printed sources, many of them concerned only peripherally with folk medicine. There are hardly any libraries that combine the necessary open access to their shelves with a sufficiently representative collection of seemingly relevant titles to allow research to be concentrated in just a single place. Worse, though, there is even more material remaining unpublished than has found its way into print, and extracting that in repositories that happen to be distant can be costly in time and money, especially when repeated visits are required. Doubtful plant identifications and obscure or vaguely described ailments, to say nothing of the Celtic languages, are further difficulties that may have to be wrestled with even after a productive source has been located.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition. To get started finding Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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