TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swerdlow,Joel
AU  - Johnson,Lynn
TI  - Nature's medicine: plants that heal 
SN  - 9780792275862 (hbk.) :
AV  - RS164 .S947 2000
U1  - 615.32 SWE 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Washington, D.C., London
PB  - National Geographic Society, Hi Marketing [distributor]
KW  - Materia medica, Vegetable
KW  - Plants
KW  - Therapeutic use
KW  - Medicinal plants
KW  - Pharmacognosy
KW  - Alternative medicine
KW  - Botany & plant sciences
KW  - thema
KW  - Traditional medicine & herbal remedies
KW  - Pharmacology
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Plants, Medicinal
KW  - therapeutic use
KW  - Atlases
KW  - Alternative Medicine
KW  - Medicine, Herbal
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 392) and index; Preface: A Plant that Cures--Introduction: Chemicals from Plants--Ancient Civilisations to the birth of modern science:- 1. Herbal Medicine of India and China--2. Plants begin to serve the Four Humors--3. Learning from the New World--The Birth of Modern Science to the End of the 20th Century:- 4. Modern Science embraces medicinal plants--5. Medicine Changes: Late 19th to Early 20th Century--6. The 20th Century: A limited role for plants--Shaping the future of plant-based medicine:- 7. Modern medicine keeps trying to use plants--8. Can herbs heal you?--Conclusion--Plant profiles--Glossary--Additional resources
N2  - A serious reference work rather than a self-help manual, Nature's Medicine focuses on the current search for, and verification of, natural healing substances found within the plant kingdom
ER  -