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Plants of life, plants of death /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Tulsi, holy basil of the Hindus : with notes on sweet basil in the Mediterranean world
- Sacred fig-trees of India
- Mandrake, a root human in form : with notes on ginseng
- A question of odor? : garlic and its relatives as impure foods in the area from Europe to China
- Ritual use and avoidance of the urd bean (Vigna mungo) in India : with comparative data on certain related foods, flavorings and beverages
- The color black in the Pythagorean ban of the fava bean (Vicia faba)
- Favism and the origin of the Pythagorean ban on fava beans
- Pythagoras lives : parallels and survivals of his views of beans in modern and premodern times
- Further notes, elaborations, and conclusions.