Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants
Title | Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Chevallier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Materia medica, Vegetable |
ISBN | 9781740331210 |
This definitive Australian reference guide provides a unique insight into the medicinal actions of herbs, based on the latest scientific research. It contains a comprehensive Australian and New Zealand address list of organisations and practitioners.
Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West - Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use
Title | Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West - Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use PDF eBook |
Author | Cecilia Garcia |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012-09-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780976309192 |
National Geographic Guide to Medicinal Herbs
Title | National Geographic Guide to Medicinal Herbs PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca L. Johnson |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 142620700X |
A resource organized by body system lists the key herbal remedies available, their uses, and cautionary advice, in a book that includes full-color photos, a glossary and several thematic indexes.
Midwest Medicinal Plants
Title | Midwest Medicinal Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa M. Rose |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017-06-28 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1604696559 |
“This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal foraging tips.” —Natural Awakenings Chicago In Midwest Medicinal Plants, Lisa Rose is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 120 of the region’s most powerful wild plants. You’ll learn how to safely and ethically forage and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes the guide useful year-round. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Bitter Roots
Title | Bitter Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Abena Dove Osseo-Asare |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2014-01-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022608616X |
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 and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.
Healing Plants
Title | Healing Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Micco Snow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-07-30 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780813061726 |
Publisher Fact Sheet. Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians Alice Micco Snow & Susan Enns Stans "Seminole medicine men & women call upon people who have a special knowledge of certain plants, roots, barks, & other items that need to be collected for the medicine they make. Alice Snow belongs to the very special small group of people who have this knowledge. It is with honor that I have known & worked with Alice for many years, & have seen how her endeavor to pass her knowledge to others will continue through the generations."--James E. Billie, chairman, Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Hildegard's Healing Plants
Title | Hildegard's Healing Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Hildegard Von Bingen |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2002-05-11 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780807021095 |
Medieval saint, mystic, healer, and visionary-Hildegard von Bingen has made a comeback. She is now popular in natural healing circles, in medieval and women's studies, and among those interested in investing the everyday with the spiritual. Hildegard's Healing Plants is a gift version and new translation of the 'Plant' section of Physica, Hildegard's classic work on health and healing. Hildegard comments on 230 plants and grains-most of which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food stores. In one of many entries on women's health, Hildegard writes, 'Also if a pregnant woman labors much in childbirth, let someone cook pleasant herbs, such as fennel and assurum, in water with fear and great moderation, squeeze out the water, and place them while they are warm around her thighs and back, tied gently with a piece of cloth, so that her pain and her closed womb is opened more pleasantly and easily.' Whether read for the sheer enjoyment of Hildegard's earthy, intelligent voice ("Let a man who has an overabundance of lust in his loins cook wild lettuce in water and pour it over himself in a sauna") or for her encyclopedic and often still relevant understanding of natural health, Hildegard's Healing Plants is a treasure for gardeners, natural healing enthusiasts, and Hildegard fans everywhere. Hildegard's Healing Plants includes 230 plants and grains-most of which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food stores.