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How we use plants for medicine and health

Examines the role of plants in making herbal remedies, antiseptics and disinfectants, personal hygiene and skin care products, pain killers, and medicines; discusses how useful plants are discovered; looks at how aloe vera is used; and includes instructions for making a herbal salve
Print Book, English, 2009
Rosen Pub. Group's PowerKids Press, New York, 2009
Literature
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
9781404244238, 9781435826137, 1404244239, 1435826132
173749286
Plants for medicine and health
Making herbal remedies
Antiseptics and disinfectants
Keeping clean
Healthy teeth
Skin care
Painkillers
Fighting disease
Treating disease
Fighting cancer
Finding new plants
Aloe vera
Make your own herbal salve
Includes index