Plants in Indigenous Medicine & Diet: Biobehavioral ApproachesNina Lilian Etkin First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Humans have long been acute observers of their biological surroundings and have been involved in dynamic relationships with ambient flora and fauna since the development of the earliest medical systems and food-getting technologies. Human-plant interactions can, then, be viewed as one expression of a population's encounter with their environment and have been the subject of considerable interest in various disciplines which seek to understand how the use of plants affects patterns of health and disease. The aim of this volume is to promote a bio-behavioral focus for indigenous plant research. |
Contents
PART TWO CRITERIA USED IN THE SELECTION | 31 |
Chapter Three Therapeutic Rationale of Plants Used to Treat Dental | 48 |
Chapter Four Folk Anticancer Plants Containing Antitumor | 70 |
A New Approach | 91 |
Evaluation of Therapeutic | 113 |
PART THREE PLANTS IN MEDICINAL AND DIETARY | 129 |
Chapter Eight Dietary and Therapeutic Uses of Fruit in Three Taita | 151 |
Effects | 171 |
A Model of Nutrition | 211 |
Chapter Twelve CoumarinContaining Plants and Serum Albumin | 229 |
Chapter Thirteen High Blood Pressure Medicinal Plant Use | 252 |
Chapter Fourteen Chemical Selection in Andean Domesticated Tubers | 266 |
PART FOUR MEDICAL PANACEAS AND MISUNDERSTOOD | 289 |
Coca in Andean | 306 |
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