Ebook: A Pompeian herbal: ancient and modern medicinal plants
- Tags: Herbals, Herbals--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city), Materia medica Vegetable, Materia medica Vegetable--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city), Medicinal plants, Medicinal plants--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city), Medicine Greek and Roman, Materia medica Vegetable -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city), Medicinal plants -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city), Herbals -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city), Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: University of Texas Press
- City: Austin;Italy;Pompeii (Extinct city
- Language: English
- epub
When workmen excavating the ruins of Pompeii eagerly gathered the native medicinal plants growing there, Wilhelmina Jashemski discovered that this was another example of the continuity of life in the shadow of Vesuvius. Many of the plants used for herbal medicine around Pompeii today are the same ones that ancient authorities such as Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides recommended for treating the same types of disorders.
In this book, Jashemski presents an herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to the ancients and still employed today. She describes each plant's contemporary medicinal uses and compares them to ancient practices as recorded in literary sources. Scientific, English, and Italian names and the plant's mythological associations complete the entries, while elegant, full-page portraits depict each plant visually.