图书标签: 草药 科普 植物 历史 NonFiction 2013
发表于2024-12-18
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As our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies bioprospect in the globe's remaining wild places for the next tamoxifen or digitalis. The gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, revealing more than soothing balms and heroic cures. Most of the truly powerful and effective medicinal plants are double-edged, with a dark side to balance the light. They can heal or kill, calm or enslave, lift depression or summon our gods and monsters. Often the difference between these polar effects is a simple change in dosage. Stuart chronicles the tale of how the herbal "materia medica" of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes. As plant species traveled the globe, their medicinal uses evolved over miles and through centuries. Plants once believed to be cure-alls are now considered too dangerous for use. Others, once so valuable that they sowed the wealth of empires, are merely spices on the kitchen shelf. David Stuart recounts engrossing human stories too, not only of the scientists, explorers, and doctors who gathered, named, and prescribed these plants but also the shamans, magicians, and quacks who claimed to possess the ultimate herbal aphrodisiac or elixir.
大卫·斯图亚特,致力于植物史的研究,另有《过去的植物》(同詹姆斯·萨瑟兰同作)、《完美栽培》、《栽培古老植物》、《一流的植物化合物》和《形成我们的花园的植物》等著作问世。
甘愿跌入你的迷阵、肉蔻长缠绵、爱欲的火与毒、长生梦、意乱情迷……光看目录页上的这些标题,就让我有了强烈的阅读欲望。我想,这也是起这个书名的缘由吧。本书中所讲的花园,并不是一般花园所呈献给我们的舒服,清香,自然美的感觉,而是惊艳,动人,迷幻的感觉。而这样的感...
评分17世纪的欧洲,对神秘的东方抱有不切实际的幻想,比如伏尔泰这个中国迷居然把当时的中国想象成了理想国度。大哲学家尚且如此,更别提其他人了。受中印医学理论的影响,“以形补形”的“形象学说”在当时的欧洲开始盛行,并被应用于草药学中。 当时的医生甚至从神学的角度为这个...
评分非常喜欢这本书的封面,但因为对植物的了解不多,一直都弄不明白封面的这朵花属于什么品种。 翻开本书才知道,封面这朵漂亮的花儿竟然是罂粟。罂粟有“快乐之草”之称,对它最早的认识是从历史书上的“鸦片战争”上得到的。所以从小就认为这种植物是黑黑的,有难闻的气味,当...
评分非常喜欢这本书的封面,但因为对植物的了解不多,一直都弄不明白封面的这朵花属于什么品种。 翻开本书才知道,封面这朵漂亮的花儿竟然是罂粟。罂粟有“快乐之草”之称,对它最早的认识是从历史书上的“鸦片战争”上得到的。所以从小就认为这种植物是黑黑的,有难闻的气味,当...
评分甘愿跌入你的迷阵、肉蔻长缠绵、爱欲的火与毒、长生梦、意乱情迷……光看目录页上的这些标题,就让我有了强烈的阅读欲望。我想,这也是起这个书名的缘由吧。本书中所讲的花园,并不是一般花园所呈献给我们的舒服,清香,自然美的感觉,而是惊艳,动人,迷幻的感觉。而这样的感...
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