Plant-Based Therapeutics, Volume 2: The Brassicaceae Family

For centuries, research has been conducted on the therapeutics of Brassicaceae plants and their health-promoting effects. Cato the Elder (234-149 BCE) documented their properties in his work De agri cultura and recommended using cabbage to compress wounds, swelling, burns, and bone dislocations. For arthritis, he recommended chopped raw cabbage mixed with coriander and cured cabbage mixed with vinegar and honey.

In a groundbreaking discovery in the 1990s, scientists at Johns Hopkins Univers...