Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa /

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"For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014
Temas:
Materia medica, Vegetable > Africa.
Medicinal plants > Africa.
Botany, Medical.
Medicinal plants.
Property.
Plants, Medicinal
Drug Discovery
Drug Industry > economics
Ethnopharmacology
Medicine, African Traditional
Ownership
Phytothérapie > Afrique.
Plantes médicinales > Afrique.
Plantes médicinales.
Propriété.
ownership.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Property
Botany, Medical
Materia medica, Vegetable
Medicinal plants
Arzneimittelentwicklung
Heilpflanzen
Africa.
Africa
Afrique.
Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals
  • Take Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy
  • Take grains of paradise for love
  • Take arrow poisons for the heart
  • Take bitter roots for malaria
  • Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger
  • Conclusion: Toward bioprosperity.

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