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Desk Reference To Nature’s Medicine

Titles
- National Geographic Desk Reference To Nature’s Medicine
- Nature’s Medicine
Attribution
Steven Foster and Rebecca L. Johnson
Publication Details
Book, National Geographic Society, 2006
Availability
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REFERENCE (MAIN) RS164 .F698 2006 AVAILABLE
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- Table of contents only
Description
It’s a journey that starts many centuries ago in remote places like the Amazon rain forest, where shamans practiced their powerful curative magic of plants, and leads to the high-tech pharmaceutical labs of today’s scientists working to discover new plant-based drugs that can be used effectively to treat diseases major and minor alike, from cancer to the common cold. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Authors
- Foster, Steven, 1957-
- Johnson, Rebecca L
Subject
Notes
- At head of title: National Geographic
- Before formal science enabled a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of diseases, and treat complaints of every kind. Today, people still use medicinal plants, in traditional roles or as building blocks for new research and innovative drugs. Featuring 350 full-color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this book is based on the work of botanical experts and presents alphabetically arranged, illustrated entries for hundreds of plants. Each is described, with full details of its physical appearance and medicinal uses; its origins and geographic distribution, how it’s harvested and used in conventional and alternative medicine, and a range map. There are also sidebars on everything from ancient folklore to the latest research.–From publisher description
ISBN
- 0792236661
- 9780792236665
LCCN
- 2006296961
Open Library ID
- /b/OL7805138M