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A Modern Herbal - Volume I A-H
By M. Grieve

Soft Cover, Dover, 1971 Reprint of 1931 Edition.
Very high quality binding.
Back cover is scratched.

If you want to know how pleurisy root, lungwort and abscess root got their names, how poison ivy 
is used to treat rheumatism, or how garlic guarded against the Bubonic 
Plague, consult A Modern Herbal. This twentieth- century version of the medieval Herbal is as 
rich in scientific fact and folk lore as its predecessors and is equally 
encyclopedic in coverage. From aconite to zedoary, not an herb, grass, fungus, shrub or tree is 
overlooked; and strange and wonderful discoveries about even the most 
common of plants await the reader.

Traditionally, an herbal combined the folk beliefs and tales about plants, the medicinal 
properties (and parts used) of the herbs, and their botanical classification. But Mrs. 
Grieve has extended and enlarged the tradition; her coverage of asafetida, bearberry, broom, 
chamomile, chickweed, dande lion, dock, elecampane, almond, eyebright, 
fenugreek, moss, fern, figwort. gentian, Hart's tongue, indigo, acacia, jaborandi, kava kava, 
lavender, pimpernel, rhubarb, squill, sage, thyme, sarsaparilla, unicorn root, 
vale rn, woundwort, yew, etc. more than 800 varieties in all includes in addition methods of 
cultivation; the chemical constituents, dosages, and preparations of extracts and 
tinctures, unknown to earlier herbalists; possi ble economic and cosmetic properties; and 
detailed illustrations, from root to bud, of 161 plants.

Of the many exceptional plants covered in the Herbal, perhaps the most fascinating are the 
poisonous varieties hemlock, poison oak, aconite, etc.

whose poisons, in certain cases, serve medical purposes and whose anti dotes (if known) are 
given in detail. And of the many unique features, perhaps the most interesting 
are the hundreds of recipes and instructions for making ointments, lotions, sauces, wines and 
fruit brandies like bil berry and carrot jam, elderberry and mint vinegar, sagina 
sauce, and cu cumber lotion for sunburn; and the hundreds of prescriptions for tonics and 
liniments and bronchitis, arthritis, dropsy, jaundice, nervous tension, skin disease, 
etc. remedies.

"There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the 
common reader as well as the serious student . . regarded simply as a 
history of flowers, it adds to the joys of the country.

B. E. Todd, Spectator - -

Unabridged republication. of original (1931) edition. 96 plates, 161 illus trations. Index of 
Country Names. Total of xxiv � 888 pp. 6� x 9�.