Sentence examples for herbals from inspiring English sources

There were famous herbals from ancient times, but all these, to the number of about 1,000, were embodied by Li Shijen in the compilation of Bencao gangmu (the "Great Pharmacopoeia") in the 16th century ce.

Also dating from around 1400 is a distinguished group of illuminated manuscripts including the Book of Hours of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, herbals (manuals containing botanical drawings), and a famous sketchbook (c. 1395) containing a large number of drawings of animals (Bergamo, Municipal Library, Δ VII 14) from the workshop of an earlier court artist, Giovannino de' Grassi.

Her first and perhaps most widely read work is Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution (1912), an account of herbals published between 1470 and 1670.

Very few original drawings were prepared for herbals before the 16th century: illustrations were copies and copies of copies.

The herbals were replaced in the 17th-century by floras, books in which plants were studied for their own sake.

In a way, it is a natural progression from her hippy youth selling herbals and essential oils in the vanished Kensington Market.

However, herbal practitioners don't need a licence to supply medicines that they create on their own premises following one-to-one consultations, as long as they don't contain banned substances.

So, on the plus side, over-the-counter herbal medicines in the UK are now safe and available in a fixed dose.

Herbal medicines are used by about a quarter of adults in the UK, the market is worth at least £485m, and they have a powerful advocate in Prince Charles.

Justin Stebbing, professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College, London, says that many people turn to herbal medicine and complementary therapies when they feel shortchanged by conventional medicine.

One of the most repeated claims is that because the products are herbal they have no side-effects.