• Thousands of Years: Medicine linked to botany:
  • Plants after physicians (Musa, ancient physician to Octavius Augustus 14 BC--rice; Alex Garden-SC, gardenia; Poinsett, poinsettia; German Fuchs, fuchsia)
  • Plants after ailments/anatomy (lungwort, fever bark, pleurisy root, eyewort)
  • Ailments/anatomy after the plants (pampiniform, sesamoid, pineal, uvula, rosacea, lichen
  • Plants after their functions (sassafras=saxifrages=stone-breaking in bladder)
  • Centuries of ship's surgeon's sailed with famous explorers--discovering most of America's "aristocrats of the garden"--(roses, lilies, chrysanthemums) or TEA (Dutch MD, 1631)
  • Plants=Medicines- Encourages curiosity, appreciation, & discovery of new treatments...plant a garden!

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