📚 Medicinal Plants

Books with medicinal plants on their catalogue record, first published between 1759 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject medicinal plants in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,768 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Back To Eden	Jethro Kloss	1939	35
	Complete Herbalist; Or, People Their Own Physician	O. Phelps Brown	1833	29
	Things mother used to make	Lydia Maria Gurney	1913	28
	A text-book of pharmacognosy	George Edward Trease	1934	14
	Herbal medicine	Dian Dincin Buchman	1979	12
	Ethnobotany	Mahendra Rai	2018	10
	Cunningham's Encyclopedia of magical herbs	Scott Cunningham	1985	8
	Pharmaceutical botany	Heber W. Youngken	1914	7
	Plants of the gods	Richard Evans Schultes	1979	7
	Artemisia	Colin W. Wright	2001	7
	Botanicum medicinale	Timothy Sheldrake	1759	6
	Stalking the healthful herbs	Euell Gibbons	1966	6
	The herb book	John B. Lust	1974	6
	School of natural healing	John R. Christopher	1976	6
	Chinese herbal medicine	Dan Bensky	1986	6
	Pharmakodynamis	Dale Pendell	2002	6
	Plants that heal	Millicent E. Selsam	1959	5
	Etruscan magic & occult remedies	Charles Godfrey Leland	1963	5
	Encyclopedia of medicinal herbs	Joseph M. Kadans	1972	5
	The way of herbs	Michael Tierra	1980	5
	Herbs and medicinal plants	Madge Hooper	1984	5
	Plant spirit medicine	Eliot Cowan	1991	5
	Little Herb Encyclopedia	Jack Ritchason	1985	4
	The healing power of herbs	Michael T. Murray	1991	4
	Pharmacotheon	Jonathan Ott	1993	4
	Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants	Jean Bruneton	1995	4
	Planting the future	Rosemary Gladstar	2000	4
	The New Healing Herbs	Michael Castleman	2001	4
	The illustrated herbiary	Maia Toll	2018	4
	Magic in herbs	Leonie de Sounin	1941	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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