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213 p. : ill |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Inanna's huluppu tree, pomegranates, and sexual power -- Pomegranateas Eve's apple -- Mandrake, the love apple, and the world's religions -- Artemisia, the "mother herb" -- The chaste tree -- Hermes, herbs, elixirs, and witches |
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Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Mode of access:World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on July 14, 2010). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions |
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From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now with modern scientific research can we begin to understand the basis and rationality that these divine connections had and, being preserved in myths andreligious stories, they continued to have a significant impact throughthe present day. Riddle argues that the pomegranate, mandrake, artemisia, and chaste tree plants substantially altered the development of medicine and fertility treatments. The herbs, once sacred to Inanna, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes, eventually came to be associated with darker forces, representing the instruments of demons and witches. Riddle's ground-breaking work highlights the important medicinal historythat was lost andargues for its rightful place as one of the predecessors |
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Original 9780230610644
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(OCoLC)473445986
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Phytotherapy -- history
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Plant Preparations -- therapeutic use
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Reproductive Medicine -- history
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Sexual Behavior -- history
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Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological -- drug therapy
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Spiritual Therapies -- history
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Medicinal plants -- History
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Sexual health -- History
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Reproductive health -- History
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Sexual disorders -- Alternative treatment -- History
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Mythologie swd
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Phytomedizin (Medizin) swd
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Electronic books. local
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