Healing Threads - Mary Beith

The Gaelic pharmacy was rich, the sources of which lay almost entirely in nature and were subject to the minimum of preparation. Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to modern medicine.In addition to a general historical background, which traces the story of Highland folk tradition from earliest times, Mary Beith describes a whole... Zobrazit více