Course: HRT 125 Plants and Society

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignments
Reading Assignments
This unit’s reading will provide you an introduction to herbalism and a list of plants used for medical purposes.

Herbalism    in Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0
This article gives an overview of the historical use of herbs as medicine and their modern-day applications.

List of plants used in herbalism     in Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0
You can explore this list to see which plants you know about can be used in medical therapy.