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Herbs and Health Atv\ERICAN BoTfoNICAL COUNCIL MEDICINAL PLANTS OF FIELD GUIDE TO EASTERN/ r------, FIELD GUIDE TO VENOMOUS WEST AFRICA J'r:l ERSO:\ F!ELO Gl !Df); CENTRAL MEDICINAL ANIMALS & POISONOUS by Edward Ayensu. 1978. 187 PLANTS, species of reported medicinal by Steven Foster ond James Duke. i;~iLJ PLANTSby Steven Foster ond Roger Caras. plants and their uses, 127 1990. Pocket size guide to i 1994. Pocket size guide to safety in illustro~ons, that occur in West medicinal plant use, iden~fying 500 the field. Features 90 venomous Africa, local names and the medicinal plants, their uses, animals and over 250 poisonous standard scientific binomials. remedies, line drawings, over 200 plants and fungi. 340 line drawings Bibliography, glossary of medical color photos. From the Peterson and 160 color photos. From the terms, medical and botanical Field Guide Series®. Hardcover, Peterson Field Guide Series®. indexes. Hardcover, 330 pp. 366 pp. $24.95 #B096 Hardcover, 244 pp. $24.95 #B097 $39.95 #B094 NEEM, A TREE FOR SOLVING ETHNOBOTANY AND THE OUTLINE GUIDE TO CHINESE GLOBAL PROBLEMS I:J:"fl:fi~~...:. .....w.n SEARCH FOR NEW DRUGS, HERBAL PATENT MEDICINES BOSTID, Notional Academy Press. IJSIIA!II~IIL.li1~\t.l.l!!'l Cibo Foundation Symposium 185. IN PILL FORM 1992. This book contains the 1994. This book examines how by Margaret Neoser.1991. 2nd medicinal uses, chemical ethnomedicol reports perform when edition. Over 17 5 potent medicines cons~tuents, growing and judged by scientific standards and ore explained. Organized with propogo~on, habitats, insec~cidol ways to develop the discipline of Chinese characters and English use, cultural use, safety tests, ethnobotony for o more quontito~ve tronslo~on and Pinyin spelling, reforesto~on, industrial products, and approach. Also discussions of the historical source and dotes, func~on other uses of this versatile plant. important differences between and clinical application, ingredients Softcover, 141 pp. $19. #B098 disease concepts in Western and with explanation of clinical function traditional medicine. Hardcover, of each herb, pictures of packaging. 280 pp. $7 6. #B095 Softcover, 371 pp. $24.95 #B099 ~~;;::;;;llll----r):;;;] ATLAS OF MICROSCOPY HANDBOOK OF ARABIAN FLOWERING PLANTS OF OF MEDICINAL PLANTS, MEDICINAL PLANTS CRC THE WORLD <::::::::::C:~;::J;~ CULINARY HERBS, AND PRESS by V.H . Heywood. 1993. 1tt'!-~~!!!f"l SPICES by Shohino Ghozonfor. 1994. Essential and authoritative by Betty Jackson ond Derek Identifies over 250 species of reference book on angiosperms. Snowden. 1990. This reference plants, their medicinal uses, Taxonomically arranged and book shows microscopic shapes biochemical information and generously illustrated, including of powders or fragments of plant references for each. lllustro~ons entries on over 300 families of materials that ore commonly of fresh and herbarium plants, consisting of distribution, used as drugs, flavorings, or specimens. Guide to diseases and diagnostic features, classification, oddi~ons to food. Based on the conditions, and on appendix of and economic uses. Over 200 out-of"jlrint Powdered plant cures. Hardcover, 265 pp. illustrations. Hardcover, 9,335 Vegetable Drugs 1968. $99.95 #B092 $45. #B089 Hardcover, 257 pp. '-=--"=-"'=~------ $67.95 #B090 A Synomized Checklist A SYNOMIZED CHECKLIST OF THE VASCULAR of the FLORA OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND DRUGS OF NATURAL ORIGIN: Vascular Flora GREENLAND A TEXTBOOK OF PHARMACOGNOSY of the by John Kortesz. 1994. These two volumes ore the most by Gunnar Somuelsson 1992. This textbook describes the origin United States, Canada, current and comprehensive summary of accepted names and of natural drug compounds, their chemistry, and biochemistry, as and Greenland their synonyms for plants of North America . Offers o well as the employment in medicine. The material is arranged taxonomic cadre beginning with the division and subdiivisior1s! according to biosynthe~c principles which places the substances in of the vascular plant kingdom and continuing with family, o natural context and facilitates on understanding of complicated genus, species, subspecies, and variety. Hardcover, 2 vol. chemical structures. Hardcover, 320 pp. $59. #8093 1,400 pp. $149.95 #B100 CREDIT CARD HOLDERS CALL TOLL FREE: 800/373-7105 OR FAX: 512/331-1924 FENAROLI'S: HANDBOOK Defines much of the arcane and OF FLAVOR INGREDIENTS specialized lexicon of the VOL I & II, 3RD EDITION flovorist. Vol. 1: includes 1995. The defini~ve guide to defini~ons, history, identifico~on , flavors. Provides regulatory descrip~ons of flavors, botanical KAVA· THE PACIFIC DRUG citations, FEMA numbers, source, ports used. Alphobe~col by Vincent Lebot, Mark Merlin substance iden~ty, names and lis~ng of opprox. 200 natural & Lamont Lindstrom. 1992. common synonyms, specifications flavor ingredients. Vol. 2: Summarizes literature ond for GRAS by FEMA, natural includes olphobe~collisting of research on Kovo's botany, sources, permitted and current use opprox. 1,000 synthe~c flavor chemistry, ethnobotony, levels in food, 350 oddi~onol ingredients listing the structure pharmacology, social usage, natural and synthetic substances ond formula. Conprehensive list distribu~on, ond economic iudged GRAS by FEMA. Features of the uses of flavor ingredients. poten~ol. B/'N photos, updated regulatory citations from Hardcover, 1,340 pp. illus., Hardcover, Chapter 21 of the Code of Federal $400. Set. #B091 255 pp. $4 5. #B032 Regulo~ons (CFR). ISLANDS, PLANTS, AND POLYNESIANs- AN INTRODUCTION TO POLYNESIAN ETHNOBOTANY Paul Alan Cox and Sondra Anne Bonock (Eds.) 1991. Based on symposium sponsored by lnst. of Polynesian Studies, BYU, Hawaii. Discussions of plant CHINESE HERBAL CHINESE HERBAL environments, herbal medicine, MEDICINE-FORMULAS MEDICINE MATERIA linguis~c analysis, and more. MEDICA AND STRATEGIES lllus., Bj'N photos. Hardcover, by Don Bensky and Andrew by Don Bensky and Randall 228 pp. $34.95 #8042 Gamble. Revised Edi~on, 1993. Barolet. 1991 . Companion volume Extensive sourcebook about the to Chinese Herbal Medicine: most commonly used substances Materia Medico, the first book of in Chinese herbal medicine. Each Chinese medicinal formulas in herb is illustrated and iden~fied by English that is textbook for its pharmaceutical, botanical, and students ond reference for practi­ family names. Hardcover, 556 pp. tioners. 600 Chinese medicinal 380 illustro~ons. $7 5. #B003 formulas in 18 func~onol categories. 18 illustrations, THE INDIAN Hardcover, 562 pp. MATERIA MEDICA $85.#B004 by Or. Kim Nodkorni, two volumes. 1993. This updated classic, known as the Ayurvedic MEDICINAL PLANTS CHINESE HEALING "Bible," contains about 2000 OF CHINA FOODS AND HERBS herbs by botanical nome, by James A. Duke ond Edward S. by AlbertY. Leung. 1984. common Indian nome in six Ayensu. 1985, Two volumes. An Contains over 30 truly traditional, languages plus English, habitat, excep~onolly useful reference. The tested remedies, comprised of l 'lo.~l"::1"'~~~ ports used, varie~es, ornon and result of o colloboro~on between herbs, spices, ond conventional common historical uses. two of the world's leading botanists, foods. Includes trodi~onol Hardcover, 2,286 pp. this guide to Chinese medicinal plant medicinal preparo~ons ond $100.#8070 resources ond their uses is intended dosages which will enable the for use by biologists, chemists, and reader to toke o new look at laypersons. Covers 1, 240 species of trodi~onol Chinese medicine. Chinese medicinal plants. B/'N illus., lllus., Softcover, 192 pp. Hardcover, 705 pp. $94.95 #B048 $10.95 #B054 CHINESE DRUGS OF AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF PLANT ORIGINS CHINESE MEDICINAL HERBS by W. Tong and G. Eisenbrand. by Wee Yeow Chin and Hsuong Keng. For reviews of select 1992. lnformo~on on recent 1992. AWestern approach hoping to remove odvonces/perspec~ves for some of the mystery surrounding Chinese new books, please future research into Chinese medicine. Alis~ng of over 270 Chinese medicinal materials. Bridge medicinal herbs, including scien~fic and see pages 63-69. between trodi~onol Chinese common names (with indexes), physical medicine and modern Western attributes, and historical use. Pertinent To order, see page 79. medicine. Chemical research results included. Color plates, illustrations. Hardcover, Hardcover, 184 pp. 1,056 pp. $169. #B035 $32.95 #8041 CREDIT CARD HOLDERS CALL TOLL FREE: 800/373-71 OS OR FAX: S12/331-1924 rom R AHANDBOOK AMAZONIAN HANDBOOK OF OF AFRICAN ETHNOBOTANICAL BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MEDICINAL PLANTS DICTIONARY PHYTOCHEMICALS AND THEIR by Maurice M. lwu. 1990. by James Duke and Rudolpho Vasquez. AOIVITIES Reference text on ethnobotony, 1994. Excellent resource book on the by James A. Duke. 1992. chemical constituents, and wealth of botanicals in the Amazon, Chemical compounds listed probable therapeutic application of listing the use and common names of alphabetically, with explanations African medicinal plants. hundreds of plants. 2371ine drawings, of their biological activities. Hardcover, Hardcover, 435 pp. Softcover, 215 pp. 183 pp. s108 . #B027 $108.#B025 $34.95 #BOll DATABASE OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE PHYTOCHEMICALS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES by James A. Duke. 1992. The Handbook on IBM computer HANDBOOK OF ALTERNATIVE AHANDBOOK OF disk (Word Perfect 5.1 needed for database) $205. #B028 CASH CROPS EDIBLE WEEDS by James Duke &Judith L. duCellier. by James A. Duke. 1992. AHANDBOOK OF PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS 1993. Describes 128 alternatives to Detailed description, distribution OF GRAS, HERBS, AND OTHER ECONOMIC PLANTS conventional crops.
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