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Author: Steven Foster
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780395988145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. 300+ color photos.
Author: Hwee Ling Koh
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2009-02-20
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9814469211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents up-to-date information on a total of 75 native and non-native medicinal plants growing in Singapore. Comprehensive and useful information from the published literature — including plant descriptions and origins, traditional medicinal uses, phytoconstituents, pharmacological activities, adverse reactions, toxicities, and reported drug-herb interactions — is presented in an easy-to-read manner for easy and quick reference. There is no minimum level of knowledge required to read this book, and botanical and medical glossaries are also provided for readers' convenience.The book will be of great practical benefit to a wide-ranging audience. Educators and students in complementary medicine and health, pharmacognosy, medicinal chemistry, natural products, pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacovigilance, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, botany, biology, chemistry and life sciences will find the information useful. The book will also appeal to clinicians, pharmacists, nurses and researchers, as it contains a comprehensive reference list at the end for further reading.
Author: Bradford Angier
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2008-07-29
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0811742806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst-ever revision of a classic guidebook. Information on each plant's characteristics, distribution, and medicinal qualities as well as updated taxonomy and 15 new species. How to identify and use wild plants for medicinal purposes.
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 142620700X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Jim Meuninck
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-04-02
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1493077872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exquisitely detailed, full-color field guide provides the identification details and practical information needed to find and properly use many of the medicinal plants and wild plant foods that provide chemicals necessary for optimum health and disease prevention. The book takes the user from simple and familiar plants ones that are less common and more difficult to identify. Each of the 122 plant entries includes a color photograph, plant description, and location. Plants are grouped according to how common or rare they are, as well as to where they are found: prairies, woodlands, mountains, deserts, and wetlands. Relevant facts about each plant include toxicity, historical uses, modern uses, as well as wildlife/veterinary uses. Additional information featured in this extraordinary field guide: explanations of how each plant affects the human body; cultural and ethnic uses of medicinal herbs and cooking spices; others creatures who consume the plants; a list of most recommended garden herbs; web site resources, and much more.
Author: Andrew Chevallier
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781740331210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: J. K. Crellin
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13:
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Author: Pamela Forey
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 1992-01-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780517691137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Instant Guide to Medicinal Plants is an ideal compact identification guide to the great variety of North American plants and trees that are known for their medicinal properties. This user-friendly guide assumes no previous knowledge: A medical glossary and an easy-to-follow system of color-coded bands, denoting the part of the plant used, leads quickly to the correct section of the book. Detailed, full-color illustrations and a concise text provide information on collecting, preparing, and using the many remedies in Nature's medicine chest.
Author: Alma R. Hutchens
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1991-08-27
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0834824396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn encyclopedia of North American medicinal plants, this classic herbalist’s guide goes inside Native American herbalism and other natural healing traditions around the world For more than twenty years, this pioneering work had served as a bible for herbalists throughout the world. It is an illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than two hundred medicinal plants found in North America, with descriptions of each plant’s appearance and uses, and directions for methods of use and dosage. Native American traditions are compared with traditional uses of the same plants among other cultures where the science of herbs has flourished, particularly in Russia and China. Included is an annotated bibliography of pertinent books and periodicals.
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Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9782831708935
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