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Medical botany

"Organized by body system and ailment makes it easy to locate appropriate therapies. - Includes background on the physiology of major systems and ailments so readers can understand how and why a pharmaceutical, botanical, or dietary supplement works. - Broad coverage includes green plants, fungi, and microorganisms. - Includes extensive references and citations from both conventional and complimentary-alternative medical systems when natural products or their derivatives are involved."--Publisher's description.

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  • "Plants affecting man's health biology"

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  • "Medizinalpflanzen."
  • "Plants in medicine. Injurous plants. Internal poisons. allergy. Cell modifiers: mutagens. Remedial palnts. Cancer. Nervous system. Heart and circulation. Metabolism. Special sensory organs. Oral hygiene. Gastrointestinal tract. Respiration system. Urogenital system. Skin. Deterrents: antibiotics. Antiseptics, and pesticides. Panaceas. Psychoactive plants. Stimulants. Hallucinogens. Depressants."
  • "This book is designed to bring into perspective the massive knowledge acquired by man to retain his health by using the plants around him. Man's survival has been dependent on his innate curiousity, his desire to examine by trial and error all aspects of his environment, and to conclude which materials are remedial, which ones are harmful, and which give him the greatest nourishment."
  • "Provides, through examples, an understanding of the world.s traditional pharmacopeias and how research is affording ways to authenticate their value for use in complementary and alternative medicines and as the basis for the development of new therapies and pharmaceutical agents. It combines scientific information in human physiology, pharmacognosy, pharmacology, and ethnobotany, and intertwines these data with a variety of colorful stories and anecdotes from Socrates. fatal use of hemlock to the evolution of such pharmaceuticals as digitalis, taxol, and lovastatin and botanicals, including Echinacea, Ginkgo, St. John.s wort, and ginseng. It is a valuable text for students of pharmacology, botany, medicine, and biology, and an indispensable tool for professionals in medicine, pharmacology, and botany, as well as an informative resource for patients and everyone interested in plants and their potential for human health."
  • ""Organized by body system and ailment makes it easy to locate appropriate therapies. - Includes background on the physiology of major systems and ailments so readers can understand how and why a pharmaceutical, botanical, or dietary supplement works. - Broad coverage includes green plants, fungi, and microorganisms. - Includes extensive references and citations from both conventional and complimentary-alternative medical systems when natural products or their derivatives are involved."--Publisher's description."@en

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