If one reads about medicinal plants in good old works, one is surprised to learn that our native garden and wild flora gives much more medicinal herbs than we still find in our pharmacists' lists. There is nothing to suggest that our ancestors, more natural than we are today, should have been mistaken about the healing power of their plants. Probably they had more patience with their herbs, while we want to feel a quick effect when used in sick days. Many aromatic herbs were also forgotten. Spices, however, refine the food, refine the taste and perfect the food with fine powers. They are also healing, improve the blood, stimulate the organs, strengthen the nerves: they warm, clean, drive, distribute and regulate. It is astonishing and how mysterious that the plants have such a strangely lifelike, nature-given relationship to the