Country Remedies The Survival of East Anglia's Traditional Plant Medicines

Many domestic plant remedies were used within living memory in rural East Anglia - and indeed survive today, as shown in this volume. Informants have been for the most part elderly country people, and in almost every instance, this information has never been written down, but has been preserved orally from one generation to the next. A surprisingly large number of these native plant remedies has come to light, and an analysis of them brings out many interesting points, including the apparent accuracy of oral testimony, when compared with written information on the subject of plant remedies. Another perhaps surprising point to emerge is that new plant remedies are still being developed, some involving the use of widely grown food vegetables.

ISBN:	9781843835059
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Published date:	15 Oct 2009
DEWEY:	615.32109426
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	148
Weight:	252g
Height:	158mm
Width:	234mm
Spine width:	10mm

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