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A study in herbal medicine and the Materia Medica. In the compilation of any work on a subject as old and revered as the study and use of Herbs, it is highly essential that, in addition to herbs and their formulae, compounds, administration, dosage, etc., we include a certain amount of the History which surrounds our subject in order to instill into the mind of the reader the glorious heritage of the Medical Herbalist. One must realize that the reason the use of Herbs in healing the sick has survived for countless thousands of years is, because Herbs are ORGANIC and, therefore, are capable of becoming a part of the living organism; also because they, and they alone are the source and origin of all human life on earth, by their production of oxygen from carbon dioxide, their grains that we eat, their medicines they bring, all from sunlight. |