Stories
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
Catalogue
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Principles of Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Hicks, JohnDate: 2013- Books
Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine : From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period / edited by Susan Francia and Anne Stobart.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
Fernandus, N. Herbal
Date: c. 1500-1525Reference: MS.270/1Part of: Feradus, Nicholaus (& others)- Books
Migraine : a history / Katherine Foxhall.
Foxhall, KatherineDate: 2019- Books
Comfrey - an ancient medicinal remedy : With a postscript on: The analysis, cooking, and cultivation of comfrey, by Lawrence D. Hills.
MacAlister, Charles J. (Charles John), 1860-1943.Date: [1966?]