Stories
- Article
Chillies and the trouble with Scoville
Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Books
Aromatic, spice and medicinal plants / S.B. Gurav.
Gurav, S. B.Date: [1993]- Books
What have plants ever done for us? : western civilization in fifty plants / Stephen Harris.
Harris, Stephen, 1966-Date: 2015- Books
Spices / J.W. Purseglove [and others].
Date: [1981]- Books
CRC handbook of medicinal spices / James A. Duke [and others].
Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
Expliquez-moi les épices... : aromates ou médicaments? / Pierre Delaveau.
Delaveau, Pierre, 1921-Date: 2006