AUSTRALIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS

By E.V. Lassak & T McCarthy

The authors cover both Aboriginal use of native plants and how the first European settlers learned from the Aborigines about the medicinal values. There is information on the plants, how they were used, what their known pharmacological constituents are, where to find them and how to prepare remedies. Hundreds of species are covered and arranged in chapters depending on their use for fevers, painkillers, antiseptics and digestive disorders etc. A sprinkling of colour photographs and line drawings assist identification of some species.

255mm X 160mm  240 pages. RRP $36.95