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Showing posts with label Plants and Their Properties. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Plants and Their Properties. Show all posts

19 November 2013

Plants & Their Properties: Roman Religious Ceremonies

by Heather Domin Plants played a big role in Ancient Roman religion, to honor the gods and to communicate desired outcomes. Roman cultu...

18 November 2013

Helpful, Harmful and Hallucinogenic Herbs of the Bronze Age

By Judith Starkston In my novel Hand of Fire, set in what is now Turkey during the Trojan War, I made a lot of people sick. That wa...

13 November 2013

Plants and Their Properties: Three Poisons

By Kim Rendfeld Years ago, I saw an amusing thing on an insecticide bottle: “made from plants.” As if that is supposed to make me fe...

11 November 2013

Herbs and their uses: The Physic Garden

By Michelle Styles If someone was training to be an apothecary or indeed wanting to work with plants as medicine, one of the most ...

06 November 2013

Plants and Their Properties: Moorish Perspectives

By Lisa J. Yarde When the ancestors of the Moors came out of the arid climates of Arabia and North Africa into Spain, they continuall...

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