2008
Dimensions cm. 17 x 24
Paperback
Bound in rigid paperboard
ISBN 978-88-95642-15-4
pp. 120, ill. 30

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E. Boncompagni, V. Mercati

AARON’S BEARD - MOOD CHANGER:
from a millenary tradition to modern clinical uses in medicine and psychiatry


Behind the millenary use of Aaron's Beard, known in the ancient world by the name fugademoni ('demon chaser'), lies man's ancestral fear of neurological illnesses, whose unknown causes used to be attributed to the influence of devils.
The renewed interest of modern medicine in this plant is due to the many confirmations given of its properties to act on states of slight and moderate depression on a par with synthesised drugs but without most of their side effects.


Elisabetta Boncompagni, graduate in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology.
Valentino Mercati, founder of Aboca Spa and Aboca Museum. President of the Centro Studi Aboca Museum.