Medicinal Plants and Plant-Based Medicines

In the following pages of the book Medicinal Plants and Plant-based medicines with their medicinal uses are reviewed alphabetically; whilst, to ensure accuracy, the genus and species of each plant are particularised. Most of these herbs may be gathered fresh in their proper season by persons who have acquired a knowledge of their parts, and who live in districts where such plants are to be found growing; and to other persons who inhabit towns, or who have no practical acquaintance with botany, great facilities are now given by our principal druggists for obtaining from their stores concentrated fresh juices of the chief herbal simples. Again, certain preparations of plants used only for their specific curative methods are to be got exclusively from the homoeopathic chemist, unless gathered at first hand. These, not being officinal, fail to find a place on the shelves of the ordinary pharmaceutical druggist. Nevertheless, when suitably employed, they are of singular efficacy in curing the maladies to which they stand akin by the law of similars. For convenience of distinction here, the symbol H. will follow such particular preparations, which number in all some seventy-five of the simples described. At the same time any of the more common extracts, juices, and tinctures (or the proper parts of the plants for making these several medicaments), may be readily purchased at the shop of every leading druggist