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Growing poppy for morphine, foxglove for digitalis, cinchona for quinine, or monkshood for aconite, all highly important drugs, (in some cases illlegal) are specialized operations outside the scope of this website and generally beyond the knowledge of the amateur herb or container gardener. Some are simple home-made tonics and teas everyone can make from herbs grown in any garden. But a simple, as the word implies, is scarcely a technical remedy, and we grow them today largely because gardeners seem loath to give up the traditions of the past when these storied herbs lined the borders of planting containers, acting as little more than garden decorations or garden art in many old monasteries, the courts of the Sacacens, and the gentle melodies of wind chimes in the gardens of Elizabethan England. A few of the herbs grown for two thousand years as containing "remedies" were ultimately found to have some scientific basis, and this has sometimes led to their indiscriminate culture.
Page 1: Why we need herbs
Page 2: Reasons for Growing Herbs
Page 3: Scoffing at Herb Gardeners
Page 4: Fragrant and Useful
Page 5: Herbs as Medicine
Page 6: Herbs and Commercial Drugs
Page 7: Grown anywhere
Page 8: Fragrance of Herbs
Page 9: The soil and flavors
Page 10: Most important Herb families
Page 11: Plant Families containing
Herbs
Page 12: Oils, Flavors, and Diet
Page 13: Learning from Herb History
Page 14: Cooking with Herbs
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