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CRC HANDBOOK OF

Medicinal

Spices

James A. Duke

with

Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin

Judi duCellier

Peggy-Ann K. Duke – “Illustrator”

CRC PRESS

Boca Raton London New York Washington, D.C.

Peggy-Ann K. Duke has the copyright to all black and white line illustrations.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

CRC handbook of medicinal spices / James A. Duke … [et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8493-1279-5 (alk. paper)

1. Materia medica, Vegetable--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Spices--Therapeutic

use--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Herbs--Therapeutic use--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I.

Duke, James A., 1929-

RS164 .C826 2002

615

′

.321--dc21

2002067412

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Acknowledgments

Perhaps it is unusual to acknowledge one's coauthors in a new book, but I sure wish to acknowledge

mine for their patience and perseverance with this new book. To Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin

for tidying up my most untidy ﬁrst drafts, and for querying our database, after updating the database

at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), working with my former USDA colleagues

Jimmie Mowder, Ed Bird (deceased), and Quinn Sinnott. I am of course indebted to the USDA for

maintaining the database these many years and to Dr. Alan Stoner for facilitating this. Readers of

the book will realize the importance of the USDA database in shaping some of our new concepts

and even for suggesting new indications for old spices. To Judi duCellier who, for more than 25

years, has quietly, and without complaining, struggled not only with my illegible handwritten notes,

complete incompetence at the computer, quick reprioritizations, and now terminal dyslexia (double

meaning intended), and produced useful documents that I mold into ﬁrst drafts. To Peggy-Ann K.

Duke, botanist and co-compiler, for closer to ﬁve decades, to whom both the world and I are

indebted for her talented art, learned as a botanist while sharing with me the wonders of botany at

the University of North Carolina, under out great teachers, alphabetically, Drs. J. E. Adams, C. R.

Bell, J. N. Couch (who swore I could not be both a botanist and a musician; my music proves him

right), Victor Greulach, A. E. Radford, and H. R. Totten, who kept us interested in botany. That

interest is still today reﬂected, in the seven plus decades of Peggy's and my lives, in my Green

Farmacy Garden in Maryland and the ReNuPeRu Garden in Peru which I started nearly a decade

ago. It now functions ﬁne without me, thanks to Pamela Bucur de Arevalo and the wonderful

workers at the Explorama Lodges of Amazon Peru, where Peggy and I shared the turning of the

New Millennium. Coincidentally, we may be leading a course there at the ReNuPeRu garden next

year, teaching Latin Americans how to better grow and process some herbs, medicinal plants and

spices covered in this book. As I have struggled with this book, I have had the marvelous luck to

have acquired a new director for my Green Farmacy Garden, phytopathologist Holly Shull Vogel.

In a sense, she keeps the Green Farmacy Garden alive through unfailing labors, too often all her

own. She shares my vision of teaching America about the best and safest medicines, like some of

the spices in this book. Illustrations for the onion, frankencense, cassia, cinnamon and cassia, garlic,

bayleaf, and myrtle are used with the permission of Duke, J.,

, Trado-

Medic Books, Buffalo, New York, 1983. All other illustrations in this book are courtesy of Peggy-

Ann K. Duke. Our thanks to those patient people at CRC who tolerated our frequent changes of

direction, especially Barbara Norwitz, Sara Kreisman, and Joette Lynch. And to you, the reader,

and your health, may the spices of life prolong and enhance the quality of your lives, saving you

from what is believed to be America's biggest killer, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR's) according

Medicinal Plants of the Bible

The Journal of the American Medical Association

, May 1, 2002.

James A. Duke

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