Herbs and Traditional Uses

Nowadays most commercial prescription medicines contain drugs synthesised from chemicals. Before the age of chemical synthesis people had to rely on medicines made from plants and other natural ingredients.

Herbs and Traditional Uses Worksheet

Which herb or herbs do you think the Apothecary would have prepared to help a patient suffering from the following complaints?

Cough

Diarrhoea

Headache

Boils

Indigestion

Insect bites

Fever

Migraine

 

What might the Apothecary recommend?

 

For a patient who needed a general tonic?

 

Use with the Herbs and Traditional Uses Information sheet

 

 
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