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...Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick up anywhere...
...nation when he ratified and amplified the '60s counterculture in The Greening of America, the most profoundly naive bestseller of the period. The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef introduces the third Reich, a San Francisco homosexual who now quotes Joni Mitchell and Walt Whitman and preaches an herbal-essence philosophy called "evolutionary rebellion...
...Arab culture was pragmatic. Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine and chemistry, for instance, was transmitted to it through Arabic versions of Greek texts, which often required drawings of the human body. The Freer show contains several scientific manuscripts. One is a splendidly decorated version of a herbal by the Greek naturalist Dioscorides. Another is a fascinating 14th century manuscript on water clocks, paddle wheels and the like, al-Jazari's Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices...
...company that has a mailing list of 300,000. Increasingly, commercial herb farms are becoming tourist attractions. At Caprilands, in North Coventry, Conn., visitors are shown through 14 different herb gardens, including one containing all the herbs mentioned in Shakespeare's works. The tour ends with an herbal lunch in the 18th century farmhouse of Caprilands' Adelma Simmons, who has written five books on herbs. Many of the new herb fanciers are rediscovering ancient health cures. Genine Kepnis, manager of the Organic Food Cellar in Cambridge, Mass., says that one salubrious seller is goldenseal, Hydrastis canadensis, which...
Medicinal Value. Edith Foster Farwell of Lake Forest, Ill., who has written three books on herbs, believes that many young people are turning to herbal medicines because they distrust most pharmaceutical products. "I get a lot of letters from people who want me to cure this or that," she says. One of her most frequent requests is for a potion to cure warts; she recommends juice from the celandine plant, which was used for that purpose in colonial times...