by Pío Font Quer · Ediciones Península · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483072424
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«Plantas medicinales» (El Dioscórides renovado) is the medicinal botany manual by Pío Font Quer, published by Ediciones Península in hardcover (1184 pages, in Spanish).
It presents 678 species of medicinal plants with description, identification, chemical composition, therapeutic virtues, method of use and vernacular names. It reviews the history of this knowledge from Dioscorides to the present day, including the theory of signatures, and closes with an extensive index of common names.
The work includes 752 original figures, 58 maps and 33 plates outside the text, 20 of them in color. The edition was published on November 15, 1999.
Reference work for pharmacists, doctors, veterinarians, herbalists and naturopaths, as well as for readers who wish to prepare their own home remedies.
