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Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible

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Plants are referred to and referenced throughout the books, poetry, and letters that comprise the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. "Duke's handbook Of Medicinal Plants Of The Bible" is a 528-page compendium of superbly organized and presented information on biblical plants that provides both academicians and non-specialist general readers with a complete, descriptive listing of the herbs that, based on citations, scholars and ethnobotanists feel were utilized by the people of the biblical era. Enhanced with an evidence-based scoring system for these plants, "Duke's Handbook Of Medicinal Plants Of The Bible" compares and contrasts citations from different versions of the Bible, presents multilingual nomenclatures providing historical and geographic roots for each featured entry, and even covers dosages that have been used historical for various human and animal ailments. Superbly enhanced with full color drawings of individual plants, each specific entry provides family line information, synonyms, notes, common names, activities, indications, dosages, dosages, downsides and interactions, natural history and extracts. Biblical quotations are provided from various translations of the bible from the King James version to the Revised Standard edition -- along with comments on points of interest. A superb writer and expert, James A. Duke (with the assistance and collaboration of Peggy-Ann K. Duke and Judith L. duCellier) has provided a seminal and invaluable contribution that should be a part of every academic library reference collection, as well as on the supplemental reading lists for students of herbal medicine, alternative medicine, botany, and biblical studies.

I have been on Dr Dukes website and there he uses the same format for summarizing plant actions uses and cautions, as in this book, and there is no book (or website) like it. It is so much more detailed than his earlier book on this subject- increasing evidence over time. He has a fire and passion for herbs of this, and other areas in the world, and it sufaces in his writing, and in the care and reverence with which he treats both scientific and traditional knowledge of plants.

He can cut to the quick of what is important vs legal obstructions of plant use- with humor, and dosen't get lost in vast array of detail he presents.

This book really is a "Must Have".

There is so much more coming in plant learning, and he is truly on the front line with sweeping wide vision, looking and ready to catch it!