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Herbal medicine in Yemen : traditional knowledge and practice, and their value for today's world /
Traditional medical lore along with its practitioners - druggists and healers - survives in Yemen today. Owing to the country's rich biodiversity, the main body of the medicines is plant-based. This book features fourteen scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East (three of them fr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2012.
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| Colección: | Islamic history and civilization ;
v. 96. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The validity of traditional medicine as an effective tool in issues of human health / Ingrid Hehmeyer
- Eastern Mediterranean pharmacology and India trade as a background for Yemeni medieval medicinal plants / Efraim Lev
- Magic and medicine in a thirteenth century treatise on the science of the stars / Petra G. Schmidl
- Qāt and traditional healing in Yemen / Daniel Martin Varisco
- The aloe and the frankincense tree in southern Arabia: different approaches to their use / Miranda Morris
- Healing through medicinal plants: old Yemenite therapeutic traditions and their application in Jerusalem today / Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
- Honey, coffee, and tea in cultural practices of Ḥaḍramawt / Mikhail Rodionov
- From medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal drugs / Jacques Fleurentin
- The miraculous plant ḥalqa (Cyphostemma digitatum): from grandmother's kitchen in Yemen's south-western highlands to modern medicinal and culinary applications / Muhammed al-Duais and Gottfired Jetschke
- A pharmacist's view of the potential value to modern medicine of plants and fungi used by traditional medicine in Yemen / Ulrike Lindequist
- Health issues in the mountains of Yemen: healing practices as part of farmers' traditional knowledge / Amin Al-Hakimi, Anhar Yaʼni, and Frédéric Pelat.