- Paperback: 888 pages
- Publisher: Dover Pubns.; New e. edition (April 1972)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0486227987
- ISBN-13: 978-0486227986
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Volume 1 of the fullest, most exact, most useful compilation of herbal material. Gigantic alphabetical encyclopedia, from aconite to zedoary, gives botanical information, medical properties, folklore, economic uses, much else. Indispensable to serious reader. Total in set: 161 illustrations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Like Halley's Comet - absolutely catch it while you can,
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This review is from: A Modern Herbal: Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Maud Grieve's wonderful A Modern Herbal, lovingly edited by Hilda Leyel and originally published in 1931 has everything to highly recommend it and only one thing to be said against it - from time to time it goes out of print. This is a blissful book for anyone with an interest in plants with any sort of medicinal application.
Even though the entire book (more recently published in 2 volumes, though initially available as a huge fat tome in entirety) has been available free online since 95, nothing beats the addictively browsable hard copy, whether in 1 or 2 vols. The full extent of the delights within, and some idea of the huge eclectic group of readers who may wish to gobble and savour the text are given by the 'subtitle' : 'The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs and trees with all their modern scientific uses.' My only minor cavils would be that due to the date of publication, and the fact that Grieve is fairly Eurocentric in her erudition, some plants with a deep history as oriental medicinals will have little reference to their medicinal use, and may even be dismissed as medicinals - for example, cardamon, described as 'not used medicinally' but 'solely for pharmaceutical purposes as a flavouring' Ayurvedic practitioners might be forgiven for raising a coolly critical eyebrow at that one! More 'modern' medicinal successes such as the ubiquitous tea tree also fail to register, even though other Melaleucas are cited. So it is really when 'traditional' use outside Europe and North America makes it into European consciousness that Grieve will detail the plant. Not her fault of course, just to do with her time and place. Whatever your interest is in the plant kingdom, you are bound to discover at least a nugget of gold within its pages! Me, I found a whole mountain!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A modern Herbal,
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This review is from: A Modern Herbal: Volume 2 (Paperback)
Very useful herbal book for research, with uses and chemical components of herbs described. Not for use as a field guide, would need pictures for this. Made a mistake of buying volume 2, this book comes in two volumes!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
a modern herbal,
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This review is from: A Modern Herbal: Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Have no problem with the book. It's just what I wanted and expected it to be. Quite a social history read too when you consider how different poeples have used herbs over a millenia.
My only grouch is that it took forever to arrive. This would have been fine had it been made clear to me from the outset but I had to email to find out after 3 weeks where it had got to and it arrived within 48 hrs! To be fair it did come from the USA but I think the wait should have been made clearer. I did have a prompt and polite response from the seller though which was very apologetic.
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