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The Great Herb Book by Richard Evans Schultens, vintage
An educational and clear book abou medicinal herbs. It is about the medicinal power of herbs, the book has nice clear pictures of plants with their descriptions. The 247 most beneficial medicinal herbs. There are herbs to make tea, for headaches, for many different diseases and ailments! A must-have book. The author of the book Richard Evans Schultes is or was a professor of biology at Harvard University. A botanist was also involved in the publication of this large herbal book, a pharmacist and botanist and a physiotherapist. The vintage book from 1978 was published by REBO productions, Sassenheim. The Great Herb hardcover book is in good condition, just a few scratches on the side of the book, see the extra pictures for this.
From Richard Evans Schultes (SHULL-tees) (January 12, 1915 – April 10, 2001) can be considered the father of modern ethnobotany, for his studies of the use of plants by indigenous peoples (especially the indigenous peoples of the Americas), including especially entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants (especially in Mexico and the Amazon), because of his lifelong collaboration with chemists, and because of his charismatic influence as a lecturer at Harvard University on a number of students and colleagues who subsequently wrote popular books and took influential positions in museums, botanical gardens and popular culture.
His book The Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (1979), co-written with chemist Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, is considered his greatest popular work: it has never been out of print and has been revised. in an expanded second edition, based on a German translation by Christian Rätsch (1998), in 2001.
