Medicinal Plants Educational Posters, Art Prints & Charts
for classrooms, home schoolers, offices.

Medicinal plants are defined as those with "health-promoting characteristics, temporary relief or symptomatic problems or has curative properties", and are generally associated with traditional cultures. Many modern day drugs: aspirin, digitalis, opium, and quinine - are based on medicinal plants.

"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food."
Hippocrates, Greek physician, known as father of modern scientific medicine 

Medicinal Plants Chart Art Print

Medicinal Plants
Erbe della salute
Plantes medicinales

Medicinal Herbs Fine Art Poster

Fresh Medicinal Herbs

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Medicinal Mushrooms Fine Art Poster

Medicinal Mushrooms

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Navajo Medicine Chart Art Print

Navajo Medicine Chart
Cliffrose, Blue Flower Lupine, Oak, Globemallow, Juniper, Root, Sage Brush, Juniper Mistletoe, Rabbit Brush, Tea, Beeplant, Navajo Tea, Sumac Berries, Pinyon Pitch, Sweet Clover Sumac, Snakeweed.

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Elizabeth Blackwell,
b. 1700; Scotland
d. 1758

Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) is not the Elizabeth Blackwell who earned the first medical degree in the US. This Elizabeth Blackwell was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. As artist and engraver for the plates of A Curious Herbal, designed for physicians as a reference to medicinal plants, she bought her husband's release from debtors prison. (He was there because he squandered her dowry.)
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Cinchona from 'Phytographie Medicale' by Joseph Roques, Published in 1821, Giclee Print

Cinchona, the source of quinine used to treat malaria, grows in the Andes Mountains of South America. Dr. John Sappington of Arrow Rock, Missouri is regarded as the first doctor (1823) to "effectively use quinine for the treatment of malaria and fevers."

Malaria, for which there is evidence that it has been with humanity for 50,000 years, is a common, widespread vector-borne infectious disease is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitos. The symptons, anemia, fever, and chills, are experienced by 515 million people annually, and responsible for killing between 1 and 3 million people a year.

The word malaria is from the Italian - "mal" (bad) + "aria" (air), it is also known as ague and marsh fever, as it was associated with swampy areas that were prime breeding grounds for mosquitos.

Lemon grass and Achillea (yarrow) are reported to be natural mosquito repellants.

Mandrake, the common name of the plant that has parsley shaped roots that often branch into the shape of a human figure (male and female), has long been attributed with magical powers.

The Mandrake grows natively in southern and central Europe, in lands around the Mediterranean Sea, and on Corsica. This illustration is from the Treatise by Dioscorides.

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Medicinal Plants for the Theriac, from "Treatise of Theriac", Giclee Print

Medicinal Plants for the Theriac, from "Treatise of Theriac", Giclee Print

A theriac was a medicinal of opium, viper and a number of other ingredients originally concocted as an antidote against snake venom. Later it became a panacea for all aliments and probably had a sediative effect. The English word treacle is derived from Greek word theriaka.

Herbal Remedies for Common Ailments

Helps you find herbal remedies for common ailments such as acne, asthma, common cold, colic, depression, and many more!