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Mandrake medicine and myths
| Kate QuarryLalita Kaplish
There’s a lot of plant lore about the mandrake, going back to ancient times. Find out more about how this unremarkable-looking plant got its magical reputation.
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Plant portraits
| Julia Nurse
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
| Barry J Gibb
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.