How we use plants for medicine and health / Sally Morgan.
by Morgan, Sally.
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BookSeries: Morgan, Sally. How we use plants: Publisher: New York : PowerKids Press, 2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: 32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.ISBN: 1404244239.Other title: Medicine and health.Subject(s): Medicinal plants -- Juvenile literature | Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Juvenile literature | Medicinal plants | Herbs -- Therapeutic useDDC classification: 615/.321 | [E]
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Summary: Examines the role of plants in making herbal remedies, antiseptics and disinfectants, personal hygiene and skin care products, pain killers, and medicines; discusses how useful plants are discovered; looks at how aloe vera is used; and includes instructions for making a herbal salve.
Plants for medicine and health -- Making herbal remedies -- Antiseptics and disinfectants -- Keeping clean -- Healthy teeth -- Skin care -- Painkillers -- Fighting disease -- Treating disease -- Fighting and treating cancer -- Dicovering new plants -- How the aloe vera plant is used -- Make your own herbal salve!
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.
Plants for medicine and health -- Making herbal remedies -- Antiseptics and disinfectants -- Keeping clean -- Healthy teeth -- Skin care -- Painkillers -- Fighting disease -- Treating disease -- Fighting and treating cancer -- Dicovering new plants -- How the aloe vera plant is used -- Make your own herbal salve!
Examines the role of plants in making herbal remedies, antiseptics and disinfectants, personal hygiene and skin care products, pain killers, and medicines; discusses how useful plants are discovered; looks at how aloe vera is used; and includes instructions for making a herbal salve.
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