Nature's medicine : plants that heal /
Swerdlow, Joel L.
Nature's medicine : plants that heal / Joel L. Swerdlow ; photographs by Lynn Johnson. - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2000. - 400 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface: A Plant That Cures 6 -- Introduction: Chemicals From Plants 8 -- ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS TO THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE -- 1 Herbal Medicine of India and China 12 -- 2 Plants Begin to Serve the Four Humors 50 -- 3 Learning From the New World 68 -- THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE TO THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY -- 4 Modern Science -- Embraces Medicinal Plants 110 -- 5 Medicine Changes: -- Late 19th to Early 20th Century 158 -- 6 The 20th Century: -- A Limited Role for Plants 192 -- SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PLANT-BASED MEDICINE -- 7 Modern Medicine Keeps -- Trying to Use Plants 242 -- 8 Can Herbs Heal You? 288.
0792275861
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicinal plants.
Pharmacognosy.
Nature's medicine : plants that heal / Joel L. Swerdlow ; photographs by Lynn Johnson. - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2000. - 400 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface: A Plant That Cures 6 -- Introduction: Chemicals From Plants 8 -- ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS TO THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE -- 1 Herbal Medicine of India and China 12 -- 2 Plants Begin to Serve the Four Humors 50 -- 3 Learning From the New World 68 -- THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE TO THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY -- 4 Modern Science -- Embraces Medicinal Plants 110 -- 5 Medicine Changes: -- Late 19th to Early 20th Century 158 -- 6 The 20th Century: -- A Limited Role for Plants 192 -- SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PLANT-BASED MEDICINE -- 7 Modern Medicine Keeps -- Trying to Use Plants 242 -- 8 Can Herbs Heal You? 288.
0792275861
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicinal plants.
Pharmacognosy.