Nature's medicine : plants that heal / Joel L. Swerdlow ; photographs by Lynn Johnson.
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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society ; London : Hi Marketing [distributor], c2000.Description: 400p. : ill. (chiefly col.), facsim., port. ; 29 cmISBN: - 9780792275862 (hbk.) :
- 079227587X (dlx.)
- Materia medica, Vegetable
- Plants -- Therapeutic use
- Medicinal plants
- Pharmacognosy
- Alternative medicine
- Botany & plant sciences
- Traditional medicine & herbal remedies
- Pharmacology
- Health and Wellbeing
- Plants, Medicinal -- therapeutic use -- Atlases
- Alternative Medicine -- Atlases
- Medicine, Herbal -- Atlases
- Plants -- therapeutic use -- Atlases
- 615.32 SWE
- RS164 .S947 2000
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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.
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.