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Hildegard's Healing Plants: From the Medieval Classic Physica (Hardcover)
by Hildegard. (Author), Bruce W. Hozeski (Translator)
Editorial Reviews
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Given the current popularity of nutritional therapy involving certain plants, vegetables and herbs, it would be easy to assume that this approach to good health is based on recent knowledge, yet the recognition that plants have healing properties is older than, well, dirt. The use of aloe to treat burns, or ginger to relieve an upset stomach can be traced to folklore, and readers curious about just how such treatments were discovered in the first place will be illuminated by this translation of Hildegard von Bingen's twelfth-century treatise. A learned nun, poet, prophet, and physician, Hildegard wrote voluminously about medicine and natural science, herein describing some 230 plants with therapeutic qualities. Although its archaic language and questionable logic make it unsuitable for literal application to any modern medical condition, the book can be appreciated by students of herbal folklore as well as those interested in medieval culture. Carol Haggas
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发表于 2007-4-4 08:38:49