Medicinal Plants : Their Role in Health and Biodiversity /

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From the beginning of human civilization, people have depended on plants to cure disease, promote healing of injuries, and alleviate pain. In many places that has changed very little. In the West, however, herbal and botanical cures have long been ignored in favor of "scientific medicine."...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Akerele, Olayiwola, Tomlinson, Timothy R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Medicinal plants.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Botany, Medical.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Phytotherapie.
Plantes medicinales > Congres.
Phytotherapie > Congres.
Phytotherapy
Herbal Medicine
Botany, Medical > Congresses.
Medicinal plants > Congresses.
Materia medica, Vegetable > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A case history of plant-derived drug research: phyllanthus and Hepatitis B virus / Baruch S. Blumberg
  • An expanded program for medicinal plants / Olayiwola Akerele
  • Exploiting medicinal plants: why do it the hard way? / Nathan Sivin
  • Safety, efficacy, and the use of medicinal plants / Norman R. Farnsworth
  • Economics and medicinal plants / Peter P. Principe
  • The medicinal plant marketplace / Robert S. McCaleb
  • Linking ethnopharmacology and tropical forest: conservation in Belize / Michael J. Balick
  • Exploitation of medicinal plants / Akhtar Husain
  • Agronomics and medicinal plants / Dan Palevitch
  • The role of botanical gardens and arboreta in traditional medicine: a personal reflection and case study / William McKinley Klein, Jr.
  • The legal situation of phytomedicines in Germany / Barbara Steinhoff
  • Indonesia: the utilization of medicinal plants for primary health care / Djoko Hargono
  • Ethnopharmacological surveys in Brazilian extractive reserves / Elaine Elisabetsky
  • Traditional Korean medicine / Chong-Yul Kim
  • Utilization and conservation of medicinal plants in China with special reference to Atractylodes lancea / He, Shan-an
  • Medicinal plants in the Philippines / Nelia P. Cortes-Maramba
  • Promising practices in the use of medicinal plants in the United States / Ara H. Dermarderosian
  • Medicinal plants and phytomedicines within the European community / Hubertus Cranz
  • The evolving status of herbals and phytomedicines in the United States / Robert G. Pinco.

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