TY  - BOOK
AB  - "Since antiquity, the medicinal qualities of certain herbs have been connected with fertility and deities, mostly goddesses. Only today does scientific and historical research help us to understand the empirical basis that these associations had, and how the use of such plants as the pomegranate, mandrake, and chaste tree, preserved in myths, redounded to humans' benefits. Riddle reveals how these herbs - once sacred to Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes - substantially altered history. Over time they came to be associated with nefarious forces and seen as the instrument of demons, witches, and the devil. Such superstition allowed important medicinal information to be lost for centuries - information that even today could prove helpful for modern medicine."--BOOK JACKET.
AU  - Riddle, John M.
CN  - RS164
CN  - RS164
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2010.
ET  - 1st ed.
ID  - 347474
KW  - Medicinal plants
KW  - Sexual health
KW  - Reproductive health
KW  - Sexual disorders
N2  - "Since antiquity, the medicinal qualities of certain herbs have been connected with fertility and deities, mostly goddesses. Only today does scientific and historical research help us to understand the empirical basis that these associations had, and how the use of such plants as the pomegranate, mandrake, and chaste tree, preserved in myths, redounded to humans' benefits. Riddle reveals how these herbs - once sacred to Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes - substantially altered history. Over time they came to be associated with nefarious forces and seen as the instrument of demons, witches, and the devil. Such superstition allowed important medicinal information to be lost for centuries - information that even today could prove helpful for modern medicine."--BOOK JACKET.
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2010.
SN  - 9780230610644
SN  - 0230610641
T1  - Goddesses, elixirs, and witches :plants and sexuality throughout human history /
TI  - Goddesses, elixirs, and witches :plants and sexuality throughout human history /
ER  -