Throughout its pages you will learn about the 55 most effective and easy to obtain plants: garlic, basil, chamomile, carrots, chicory, onions, lemon, mint, walnut, thyme, valerian, etc. Special attention is also given to honey and other beehive products: pollen, propolis, royal jelly, etc. The precise indications are described and given to elaborate all the tisanes, infusions, decoctions, medicinal wines, tinctures, ointments, elixirs, syrups and poultices used for the most varied disorders and diseases.
As you can see from the explanations in the book, acne and asthma, bronchitis and headache, fever and hemorrhoids, abscesses and liver diseases, insomnia and neuralgia, colds and constipation are easily cured diseases: thus, you can fight a headache by smelling wine vinegar, relieve stomach pain with a tisane of nettle or cure the liver with a decoction of lettuce. For each plant, the place and time of collection, the remedy that can be prepared and the dosage with which it should be administered are described.