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Harrowsmith vintage softcover gardening book with useful perennial ideas
amber glow of sea buckthorn fruit oil
cup by cup
it is chocolate elevated into a tonic
and yellow peas form the hearty base
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine St Benedict Cross Harrowsmith vintage softcover gardening bookFor 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40 80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dioscorides himself thought it was self evident): he
