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Excerpt from Compositae Newsletter: Jan 1991 From the foregoing, it is clear that pharmaceutical science can no longer afford to ignore the reports of traditional medicinal uses of plants or simply because their practises apparently fall short of the expectations of modern science. But the indi genous information on the uses of such plants should stimulate and encourage the systematic analyses of the plants following modern scientific techniques. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.