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The Heart and Its Healing Plants: Traditional Herbal Remedies and Modern Heart Conditions
ISBN: 9781644118382
$29.99
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9781644118382
An ethnobotanical look at ancient heart beliefs, heart-strengthening herbs, and folk remedies for cardiovascular diseases
• Discusses traditional understandings of the heart from early European cultures and indigenous peoples of the Americas, Asia, and Africa
• Examines the heart as the home of the soul and an organ of perception and looks at traditional beliefs on what makes the heart sick
• Presents a materia medica of plants used for millennia to treat heart-related conditions as well as plants in use by modern herbalists and cardiologists
• Discusses traditional understandings of the heart from early European cultures and indigenous peoples of the Americas, Asia, and Africa
• Examines the heart as the home of the soul and an organ of perception and looks at traditional beliefs on what makes the heart sick
• Presents a materia medica of plants used for millennia to treat heart-related conditions as well as plants in use by modern herbalists and cardiologists