This book provides ethnobotanical data about the traditional uses of medicinal plants across the world. This book aims to analyze and evaluate the use of medicinal crops among different groups of people. The book mentions that medicinal plants can be used to treat various diseases, especially respiratory diseases and skin diseases. It discusses the importance of traditional usage of plants to treat and prevent some common and certain rare diseases. There are also medicinal uses of some local plant taxa reported. The book mentions that medicinal plants represent natural remedies for various diseases in indigenous communities. Phytotherapy still maintains an important role in the treatment of ailments in many areas.
The authors and studies presented in this book reflect work being conducted across Europe's many regions.
Designed for new scholars, this book features a quick and easy-to-read discussion of ethnobotany along with its major developments.
The Chumash people have lived in coastal California from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara for thousands of years. Their homeland is an area of uncommon biological richness and diversity,...
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Discover how cultures use plants for food, fuel, medicine, shelter, and religious ceremonies, and how scientists look to traditional remedies to fight disease.
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And yet, although supported by science and its practitioners, the story was also underpinned by a persuasive mix of myth, sentimentality, and nostalgia for a long-lost tropical Eden.
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues. Hardy, D.E. 1991. Tattoo Time: Art from the Heart. Honolulu: Hardy Marks Publication. ... McClatchey, W., and P.A. Cox. 1992. Use of the Sago palm Metroxylon warburgii in the ...
Forty poems portraying the moods, sensations, and experiences of childhood.
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