CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices

by James A. Duke, Judi duCellier, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin

Book Overview

"Let food be your medicine, medicine your food."
-Hippocrates, 2400 B.C.

When the "Father of Medicine" uttered those famous words, spices were as important for medicine, embalming, preserving food, and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, onion, and turmeric will assume relatively more medicinal importance again, as the economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367395762
• ISBN13: 9780367395766
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"