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Poppy Garden The Way Of A Chinese Grower William Griffith Illustrated by Suzan Neri
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Opium
Poppy Garden The Way Of A Chinese Grower William Griffith Illustrated by Suzan Neri
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pium
Poppy Garden is a complete guide to cultivating and harvesting
this beautiful plant. The poppy is one of the most potent flowers in
the
herbal pharmacopoeia and has been used to alleviate discomfort for
millennia.
The use of plant substances as alternatives to synthetic medicines is
resurging
due to their beneficial properties and less-toxic side effects.
Opium
Poppy Garden is the tale of Ch'ien, a young Chinese man, as he
travels from Costa Rica to Columbia in order to grow an opium garden in
the manner his Taoist grandfather taught him. Combining literary and
instructional
writing with technical information on cultivation and pharmacology to
provide
the reader with a working knowledge of the beautiful and exotic opium
poppy. 