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  • There is something you can do about HIV & AIDS : join the Food Chain / The Food Chain (UK) Ltd.
  • There is something you can do about HIV & AIDS : join the Food Chain / The Food Chain (UK) Ltd.
  • The Food Chain : it's not just cooking : feeding the fight gainst HIV and AIDS : what can you do? / The Food Chain.
  • The Food Chain : it's not just cooking : feeding the fight gainst HIV and AIDS : what can you do? / The Food Chain.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Canadian government food test : (extract from report of gov't officials at Ottawa, Can.) / Thos. MacFarlane.
  • The Food Chain : it's not just cooking : feeding the fight gainst HIV and AIDS : what can you do? : new contact details / The Food Chain.
  • The Food Chain : it's not just cooking : feeding the fight gainst HIV and AIDS : what can you do? : new contact details / The Food Chain.
  • Fry's malted milk cocoa with eggs : the most nourishing food you can drink : 7 1/2d per 1/4 lb. / Fry.
  • A midwife washes a newborn baby while a kneeling attendant proffers a robe with which to wrap it; left, an attendant brings food to the mother whose hand can be glimpsed behind a screen. Woodcut by Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1716/1736.
  • 3D view on vessels of a healthy minipig eye. The upper opening corresponds to the pupil as the gateway input of all light into the eye. It is interesting to see the marked abundance of vessels of the pupil which bring energy and food to the muscles to control the amount of incident light. The other large vessels are feeder vessels for the outer layers of the retina and muscles, so, that the eye quickly can perceive the environment and the creature may adapt and survive.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • Plums / Janet Bond.
  • Plums / Janet Bond.
  • Plums / Janet Bond.
  • Plums / Janet Bond.
  • Viburnum japonicum Spreng. Caprifoliaceae Distribution: Evergreen Shrub. Distribution: Japan and Taiwan. No medicinal uses. The fruit is a 'famine food' eaten when all else fails. As other seeds/fruits of Viburnum species are listed as poisonous, and none are listed as 'edible', one can assume that the seeds/fruits of V. japonicum are also toxic. It does not appear vulnerable to pests or molluscs which may be due to irioid glycosides that are present in this genus produced as a defence against herbivores, fungi and bacteria. They have a bitter taste. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Viburnum japonicum Spreng. Caprifoliaceae Evergreen Shrub. Distribution: Japan and Taiwan. No medicinal uses. The fruit is a 'famine food' eaten when all else fails. As other seeds/fruits of Viburnum species are listed as poisonous, and none are listed as 'edible', one can assume that the seeds/fruits of V. japonicum are also toxic. It does not appear vulnerable to pests or molluscs which may be due to irioid glycosides that are present in this genus produced as a defence against herbivores, fungi and bacteria. They have a bitter taste. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Viburnum japonicum Spreng. Caprifoliaceae Distribution: Evergreen Shrub. Distribution: Japan and Taiwan. No medicinal uses. The fruit is a 'famine food' eaten when all else fails. As other seeds/fruits of Viburnum species are listed as poisonous, and none are listed as 'edible', one can assume that the seeds/fruits of V. japonicum are also toxic. It does not appear vulnerable to pests or molluscs which may be due to irioid glycosides that are present in this genus produced as a defence against herbivores, fungi and bacteria. They have a bitter taste. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Gaultheria procumbens Kalm Ericaeae. Wintergreen, teaberry, boxberry, chickerberry. Distribution: North American forests. Named for French physician/botanist Jean Francois Gaultier (1708-1756). Physician to the French King, emigrated to Quebec in 1742. Researched flora of North America, died of typhus (Oakeley, 2012). Source of oil of wintergreen. Ten pounds of oil can be extracted from a ton of leaves. Toxic effects: Stupidity, swelling of the tongue, food craving, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, dyspnoea, hot skin, tachycardia, restlessness (MiIlspaugh, 1974). Active chemical is methyl salicylate. Used topically for musculo-skeletal conditions, it is converted to salicylic acid when absorbed. Excess use has caused a death. Salicylic acid is also used for warts and corns (first described by Dioscorides in 70CE)
  • Silphium perfoliatum L. Asteraceae Indian Cup. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that another species, S. compositum, was used by Native Americans to produce a chewing gum from the dried sap of the roots, and Native American medicinal uses for 'Indian Cup' are probably referrable to S. compositum and not S. perfoliatum. Silphium perfoliatum contains enzymes that inhibit trypsin and chymotrypsin which gives it resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attacks. Male gall wasps (Antisotrophus rufus) alter the chemistry of the plant to enable them to locate females, making it a 'signpost' plant. The gall wasp lays its eggs in the stem of Silphium laciniatum, to provide food for the larva on emergence, and the galls containing a male or a female wasp will cause the plant to give off a different chemical odour. Emerging male wasps can search for female wasps, which emerge later, by locating this chemical fragrance which acts as a sex pheromone proxy (Tooker et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26
  • Preserving the harvest / Heinz.