Useful herbs and spices of Israel. Popular Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants

Here is the first in Israel Encyclopedia of herbs Mediterranean region, published in Russian. Surely you are in Russia and other CIS countries, herbalists have read and enjoyed the variety of herbs for the treatment of various diseases. You used to brew from St. John's wort symptoms and Leonurus take valerian and lubricate the wound with tincture of calendula. But on arrival in Israel was that your friends do not grow grass here, and those that are sold in the market and in the pharmacies, have a completely different smell, taste and, more importantly, the name by which it is impossible to understand exactly what a plant in front of you. Therefore, in this book, I proceeded from the principle of utility information for the reader. Each chapter consists of several parts. First of all: the name of the plant in three languages - Russian, Latin, Hebrew and English with transcription. Each herb or spice is shown in the figure, which you will be able to visually identify, know it or not. The chapter also provides botanical characteristics of the plant, its history, its application in medicine with a detailed description, precautions and recipes to spice plants. All recipes - Israeli or Mediterranean and Asia Minor, ie those habitats where distributed spices.