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Opium Poppy Garden The Way Of A Chinese Grower William Griffith Illustrated by Suzan Neri
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pium Poppy Garden is a complete guide
to cultivating and harvesting this beautiful plant. The poppy is one of
the
most potent flowers in the herbal pharmacopoeia and has been used to
alleviate
discomfort for millennia. The use of plant substances as alternatives
to
synthetic medicines is resurging due to their beneficial properties and
less-toxic
side effects. 
Opium Poppy Garden is the tale of Ch'ien,
a young Chinese man, as he travels from Costa Rica to Columbia in order
to
grow an opium garden in the manner his Taoist grandfather taught him.
Combining
literary and instructional writing with technical information on
cultivation
and pharmacology to provide the reader with a working knowledge of the
beautiful
and exotic opium poppy. 