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1 online resource (349 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contributors to This Volume -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- PART ONE THE IMPORTANCE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO PLANT USE -- Chapter One Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Interpretation of Plants Used in Indigenous Medicine and Diet -- PART TWO CRITERIA USED IN THE SELECTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS -- Editor's Introduction to Part Two -- Chapter Two Herbal Emmenagogues Used by Women in Colombia and Mexico -- Chapter Three Therapeutic Rationale of Plants Used to Treat Dental Infections |
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Chapter Four Folk Anticancer Plants Containing Antitumor Compounds -- Chapter Five Informant Consensus: A New Approach for Identifying Potentially Effective Medicinal Plants -- Chapter Six Aztec Medicinal Herbs: Evaluation of Therapeutic Effectiveness -- PART THREE PLANTS IN MEDICINAL AND DIETARY CONTEXTS -- Editor's Introduction to Part Three -- Chapter Seven Empirical Investigations of Dietary Plants Used in Igbo Ethnomedicine -- Chapter Eight Dietary and Therapeutic Uses of Fruit in Three Taita Communities |
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Chapter Nine Chinese Diet and Traditional Materia Medica: Effects on Platelet Function and Atherogenesis -- Chapter Ten Medicinal Plants of the New Guinea Highlands: An Ethnopharmacologic and Phytochemical Update -- Chapter Eleven Favism and Malaria: A Model of Nutrition and Biocultural Evolution -- Chapter Twelve Coumarin-Containing Plants and Serum Albumin Polymorphisms: Biomedical Implications for Native Americans of the Southwest -- Chapter Thirteen High Blood Pressure Medicinal Plant Use and Arterial Pressure Change |
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Chapter Fourteen Chemical Selection in Andean Domesticated Tubers as a Model for the Acquisition of Empirical Plant Knowledge -- PART FOUR MEDICAL PANACEAS AND MISUNDERSTOOD PLANTS -- Editor's Introduction to Part Four -- Chapter Fifteen Ginseng: A Medical Enigma -- Chapter Sixteen Beyond the Mystique of Cocaine: Coca in Andean Cultural Perspective -- Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Browner, Carole H
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Ortiz De Montellano, Bernard R
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Elvin-Lewis, Memory
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Duke, James A
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| ISBN |
9781135882709 |
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1135882703 |
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