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Herbalism is one of the oldest and most widespread of all medical therapies. As cultures have evolved, various traditions of folk medicines have usually included locally available plants and trees. As the knowledge was passed from elder to child orally down the generations, much of the knowledge was retained in folklore and legend, stories that held the knowledge that was kept safe within these stories.
It is only when the written word came to Britain with the monks of Christendom that herbal knowledge began to be recorded in words on paper. It is to such physicians as Hippocrates, Pedanius Dioscorides, Hildegard of Bingen, the Physicians of Myddfai, Paracelsus, Culpepper, Dr Albert Coffin, and to more recent works by David Hoffman that we have to thank for much of what we now find written down from the old herbal knowledge, which was once the province of the wise woman or man of the tribe.
Although the passing of knowledge is achieved better by oral communication, here at Oakenwood we also acknowledge the tools of use today. With this thought Oakenwood offers its Herb Monographs to anyone who will find a use for them.
The list on this page is by no means a finished project and will grow as time allows. If you enjoy our Monographs and would like to contribute to the list with either an addition to what we have already, or perhaps a new Herb Monograph that isn’t in place yet. Or if you would like to see a monograph that isn’t already showing, then please contact our herb administrator, who will be pleased to hear from you. Contact us by email at ‘Herbs Admin’
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