Medicinal Plants

Medicinal Plants - plants used as natural medicines. This practice has existed since prehistoric times. There are three ways in which plants have been found useful in medicine. First, they may be used directly as teas or in other extracted forms for their natural chemical constituents. Second, they may be used as agents in the synthesis of drugs. Finally, the organic molecules found in plants may Read More...

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Trying to Give Ease (Chap. 1 "Medicinal Plants and Their Traditions: A Complex of Ideas")
by John K. Crellin, Jane Philpott. 340 pgs.

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Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Medicinal Plants and Their Traditions: a Complex of Ideas

Chapter 2: "I'Ve Always Got By": the Voice of a Modern Herbalist

Chapter 3: Health Matters in a Changing Community

Chapter 4: Self-Treatment in the Community: a Cultural Force

Chapter 5: Acquiring Herbal Knowledge: a Popular Tradition

Chapter 6: The Practice: Setting and Visitors

Chapter 7: The Practice: Treating Ailments and Symptoms

Chapter 8: Reflections on the Region and Beyond

Notes

Annotated Bibliography

Index
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Economic Botany: A Textbook of Useful Plants and Plant Products (Chap. XI "Medicinal Plants")
by Albert F. Hill. 560 pgs.

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Preface to the First Edition

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Chapter I: The Importance and Nature of Plant Products

Chapter II: Fibers and Fiber Plants

Chapter III: Forest Products: Wood and Cork

Chapter IV: Forest Resources

Chapter V: Tanning and Dye Materials

Chapter VI: Rubber and Other Latex Products

Chapter VII: Gums and Resins

Chapter VIII: Essential Oils

Chapter IX: Fatty Oils and Waxes

Chapter X: Sugars, Starches, and Cellulose Products

Chapter XI: Medicinal Plants

Chapter XII: Fumitories and Masticatories

Chapter XIII: The History and Nature of Food Plants

Chapter XIV: The Major Cereals

Chapter XV: The Minor Cereals and Small Grains

Chapter XVI: Legumes and Nuts

Chapter XVII: Vegetables

Chapter XVIII: Fruits of Temperate Regions

Chapter XIX: Tropical Fruits

Chapter XX: Spices and Other Flavoring Materials

Chapter XXI: Beverage Plants and Beverages

Systematic List of Species Discussed

Bibliography

List of Visual Materials

Index
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Folk Medicinal Plants in the Sikkim Himalayas of India, in Asian Folklore Studies
by H. Birkumar Singh, P. Prasad, L. K. Rai. 16 pgs.

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Folk Medicinal Plants of the Nagas in India, in Asian Folklore Studies
by Sapu Changkija. Mulitple pgs.

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Struggling over the Direction of Caribbean Medicinal Plant Research, in Futures
by C. Lans. 19 pgs.

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Alpine Medicinal Plant Trade and Himalayan Mountain Livelihood Strategies, in The Geographical Journal
by Carsten Smith Olsen, Helle Overgaard Larsen. 12 pgs.

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African Medicine and Magic in the Americas, in The Geographical Review
by Robert Voeks. 13 pgs.

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A Cure for All Seasons: Health and Medicine in a Bush Community, in Journal of Australian Studies
by Peter Davies. 14 pgs.

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Power Plants, in Geographical
by Metthew Brace. 5 pgs.

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The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method (Chap. 4 "Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: the Medicinal Plants of Native America")
by Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi. 400 pgs.

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This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. Originally cited in American Anthropologist as "must reading for all medical anthropologists, physicians, advanced medical anthropology students and advanced medical students," this new edition should prove twice as valuable. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work. The authors bring new perspectives to our understanding of both Western and non-Western medicine, from the biochemical and physiological aspects of health care in preindustrialized cultures to cultural and ideological factors inherent in past and present Western medical care. New chapters focus on ethnobotany, placebo and pain, shamanism, and psychiatry.

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Preface: the Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman Paradigm

References

Part I: Medical Systems and the Uses of Choice

References

1: Creativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy

Notes

References

2: Aztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600

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3: Phantoms and Physicians: Social Change Through Medical Pluralism

Notes

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Part II: Empirical Analyses of Non-Western Medical Practices and Medical Ecology

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4: Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: the Medicinal Plants of Native America

Acknowledgments

References

5: Herbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of the Lowland Mixe (oaxaca, Mexico)

Acknowledgments

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6: The Evolution of Human Nutrition

Acknowledgments

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7: Zoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases: New Perspectives

Appendix: Short Descriptions of Animal Virus Families

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8: Malaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective

Acknowledgments

Notes

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Part III: Embodied Mind: Metaphors of Pain, Placebo, and Symbolic Healing

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9: The Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman

Notes

References

10: Anarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine Among the Tabwa of Zaire

Acknowledgments

Notes

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11: Physiology and Symbols: the Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect

Acknowledgments

References

12: Narratives of Chronic Pain

Notes

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13: The Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain

Acknowledgments

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Part IV: Modern Medical Inquiry and Culture Change

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14: Stress and Its Management: the Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment

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15: Science of the Mind in Contexts of A Culture

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16: The "New Psychiatry": from Ideology to Cultural Error

Notes

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17: The Aging: Legal and Ethical Personhood in Culture Change

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18: The Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine

Acknowledgments

Notes

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19: "Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination

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Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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The 'Homelie Herbe': Vivienne Crawford Examines the Medicinal History of Cannabis in Britain, in History Today
by Vivienne Crawford. 2 pgs.

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Cultural History of Plants (Chap. 12 "Plants as Medicines")
by Sir Ghillean Prance, Mark Nesbitt. 452 pgs.

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The Cultural History of Plants is the most important book published on the spread and exploitation of plants in over a century. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, this valuable reference will be useful for both scholars and general readers. It is both botanical and cultural, describing the role of plants in social life, regional customs, the arts and natural landscapes. There are over 1000 plant entries in the form of concise histories, 200 maps, and 600 black and white illustrations. The A to Z entries cover food and flowering plants as well as those used for textiles, perfume and drugs, and include bibliographic information. Appendices include lists of protected species, plant collection sites, a glossary and a chronology of plant migration.

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Part I: The Seeds of Time

1: The Hunter-Gatherers

2: Origins and Spread of Agriculture

Part II: The Migration of Plants

3: Gathering Food from the Wild

4: Grains

5: Roots and Tubers

6: Fruits

7: Herbs and Vegetables

8: Nuts, Seeds, and Pulses

9: Spices

10: Caffeine, Alcohol, and Sweeteners

11: Psychoactive Plants

12: Plants as Medicines

13: Fragrant Plants

14: Ornamentals

15: Natural Fibers and Dyes

16: Wood

17: Materials

Part III: Today and Tomorrow

18: Age of Industrialization and Agro-Industry

19: Invasives

20: Conservation of Wild Plants

21: Conservation of Crop Genetic Resources

Plant Names

General References on the History of Useful Plants

Index
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Health Ecology: Health, Culture, and Human-Environment Interaction (Discussion of medicinal plants begins on p. 212)
by Morteza Honari, Thomas Boleyn. 276 pgs.

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Health Ecology brings together a variety of approaches from different perspectives and different locations, the contributors examine the various dimensions of health ecology in the framework of human ecology.

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1: Health Ecology:

Part I: Health in Macro Ecosystems

2: Good Planets Are Hard to Find

3: Health and Conservation

4: Human Health as an Ecological Problem

5: Health Through Sustainable Development

6: Health and Political Ecology

Part II: Health in Micro Ecosystems

7: Health of Women

8: Health of Children

9: Healthy Homes

Part III: Selected Case Studies

10: Health Ecology and the Biodiversity of Natural Medicine

11: Health of Rural and Urban Communities in Developing Countries

12: Health and Psychology of Water

13: Health Impact Assessment in Flanders

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Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam (Chap. 7 New Land Rights and Women's Access to Medicinal Plants in Northern Vietnam")
by Irene Tinker, Gale Summerfield. 305 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction: Women's Changing Rights to House and Land in Vietnam, Laos, and China

1: Women's Empowerment Through Rights to House and Land

Notes

2: Economic Development, Housing, and the Family: is the Singapore Approach an Appropriate Model?

Notes

Part One: Vietnam

3: Women Influencing Housing in Ho Chi Minh City

Notes

4: Women's Access to Housing in Hanoi

5: Women and Rural Land in Vietnam

Notes

6: Cultivating the Forest: Gendered Land Use Among the Tay in Northern Vietnam

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7: New Land Rights and Women's Access to Medicinal Plants in Northern Vietnam

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Part Two: Laos

8: Gender and Changing Property Rights in Laos

Notes

9: Reforming Property Rights in Laos

Part Three: China

10: Chinese Women's Housing Rights: an International Legal Perspective

Notes

11: Housing Reform in Urban China

Notes

12: The Impacts of Shanghai Housing Reform

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13: State and Market Provision of Housing in Shanghai

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14: The Housing Situation for Women in Beijing

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15: Changes in Housing Patterns for Rural Chinese Women

Notes

16: Changing Land and Housing Use by Rural Women in Northern China

Notes

Conclusion: What We Know—and What We Need to Know

Bibliography

The Contributors

Index

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