Product Description
This educational software is packed with valuable, detailed information on medicinal plants. This easy to use CD-ROM contains something for everyone: history and folklore of herbs, medicinal properties and uses of herbs, homemade herbal remedies, delicious and healthy recipes that are fast and easy to make, beautiful digital, botanical illustrations and photographs, list of ailments and the herbs that relieve and prevent them, various herbal beauty aids, skin treatments, information on essential oils and how to make your own homemade herbal soaps, tips on how to grow and collect your own herbs, up-to-date information on commercial herbs and an extensive glossary! This software requires a standard Windows 95/98/NT/2000 system, with a color monitor, a CD-ROM or DVD drive, and approximately 48MB hard drive space.
About the Author
As a botanist, Victoria Vancek specializes in plant taxonomy (classifying and identifying Pacific Northwest wild flowers) and also works as a freelance scientific illustrator and professional nature photographer. Victoria is the only botanical illustrator that uses a new-age medium to produce her illustrations - a computer. Victoria has illustrated thousands of plants using computer graphics rather than conventional media such as ink & pen and watercolors used by other botanical artists. Victoria's passion for integrating art and technology has her currently working on other educational CD-ROM projects. She is also greatly involved in computer programming and designing Web sites. Victoria is a member of the Federation of B.C. Naturalists, and when not working, she enjoys the outdoors and educating others about the environment. Victoria resides in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada.






