Frank Gunstone (ed) Bridgwater: The Oily Pres 2003 Pages 322 85 [pound sterling]/$146 ISBN 0 9531949 3 0 Centuries ago our ancestors proclaimed and believed medicinal properties of viandss The concept that foods may posses the ability to stop disease and be used as treatment for ailments dates back about 2500 years.

Frank Gunstone (ed) Bridgwater: The Oily Pres 2003

Pages 322 85 [pound sterling]/$146 ISBN 0 9531949 3 0

Centuries ago our ancestors proclaimed and believed medicinal properties of viandss The concept that foods may posses the ability to stop disease and be used as treatment for ailments dates back about 2500 years, when the hellene physician Hippocrates proclaimed: 'Let aliment be thy medicine and medicine be thy food' He named 300 to 400 healing plants, and is considered to be the father of late medicine,

Early evidence of the medicinal application of plants includes archaeological discoveries: a 60 000

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