Personalised medicine
Trials and tribulations
SECTION TWENTY ONE: MEDICINAL PLANTS
Polyvalence and contradiction
Contradictions within the prescription
Drugs or adaptogens
Stimulus—organisation—response events or SORe
Symptomatic treatments
Is the medicinal plant an object or a process?
Chemical constituents of plants
Structure and function
Animal impulses and plant responses
What can we do?…
SECTION TWENTY TWO: MODES METHODS AND PARADIGMS OF TREATMENT
The priority of needs
The treatment of ailments
Spasmophilia and the steps in the fall from poise
Problems with initiating recovery
Adverse effects on the side
A health reminder
Ageing and poise: losing the ratio
Inclination and poise
Ailments and poise
Alternation
Segmented systems
Alternation prescribing for alternators
Treat the insomnias by managing circadian entrainment
The parallel interlocked systems of homeostasis and circadian adaptation
All along the digestive tract: the many presentations of dysfunction
Fussy eaters
Gastro–oesophageal reflux
Bloating or postprandial fatigue
Intestinal transit
Diverticulosis
Pain
Pain referred but also displaced
Daily medicinal plants in food
The disadvantages of stamina
An approach to migraine and asthma
Gout and hyperuricaemia
Chilblains
Heavy legs
Essential hypertension
Pimples, styes, boils, lipomas and acne
Eczema and psoriasis
Upper respiratory infections
Arthralgia and myalgia
The bow wave
The treatment of pre–menstrual syndromes as well as low fecundity
Advice and habit
Eating meditation
Modal treatments
Alcohol (harmful use)
Anxiety
Acne
Anaemia (and Genital Ratio)
Arthralgia and myalgia, aching and stiffness
Calamitous expectation
Children and adolescents
Congestion
Disconnected states
IBS–A
Intolerance
Osteoporosis
Wobbly states
SECTION TWENTY THREE: PLANT TAXONOMY AND SYSTEMATICS
Botany
Appendix to section on plant taxonomy and systematics
Nineteenth century
de Candolle in France
Lindley in Britain
Engler & Pranti in much of Continental Europe
Bentham & Hooker in Britain
Twentieth century
Bessey in the United States
Hutchinson in Britain
Dahlgren
Benson
Kubitzki system
Lyman David Benson. plant classification 1957
Principles of the taxonomy of the vascular plants in the twenty-first century
A list of useful vascular plants
Arranged according to recent phylogenetic research (APG IV 2016)
Lycopods Clubmosses
Ferns
Leptosporangiate Ferns
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Basal Angiosperms 3 Families
Magnoliids 17 Families
Monocots
Eudicots
Leguminosae
SECTION TWENTY FOUR: MATERIA MEDICA
Lists of plants
Recommendations for the dispensary
Gymnosperms
Pinaceae
Pinus
Monocots
Amaryllidaceae
Alliums
Asparagaceae
Convallaria
Ruscus