How we use plants for medicine and health /
Medicine and health
Sally Morgan.
- 1st ed.
- New York : PowerKids Press, 2009.
- 32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
- How we use plants .
- Morgan, Sally. How we use plants. .
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.