Historical and modern uses, active ingredients, and pharmacological effects for more than 300 medicinal plants.
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Medicinal Plants of the World
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Medicinal Plants of the World is a comprehensive and scientifically accurate guide to the best-known and most important medicinal plants. The book includes descriptions of more than 300 medicinal plants and their close relatives. Each entry gives a short summary with a description of the plant, the geographical origin, therapeutic category, historical and modern uses, active ingredients and pharmacological effects. More than 500 full-colour photographs assist in the identification of the plants. It is an essential reference guide for health care professionals — doctors, nurses and especially pharmacists — or anyone with an interest in medicinal plants and their uses.
480 pp, 165 x 240 mm, 793 colour photos, 3 tables, 137 diagrams, hardcover
ISBN13 9780881926026
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Medicinal Plants of the World gives readers a bird's-eye-view of more than 320 of the best-known medicinal plants in use today. More than 500 full-color photographs assist in the identification of the plants. It is an essential reference guide for healthcare professionals - doctors, nurses, and especially pharmacists - or anyone with an interest in medicinal plants and their uses.
Medicinal Plants of the World is a scientifically accurate guide to the best-known and most important medicinal plants of special commercial or historical interest which is a rapidly expanding field.
A great guide, the book's photos are helpful for confirming identification, the information is detailed for use in analytical processes as well as for a lay herbalist.
Once again, Timber Press are to be congratulated on publishing these books.
An in-depth, scientifically accurate, superbly presented, seminal survey and guide to the best-known medicinal plants....a reference that health care professionals will relish and refer to time and time again.
For health care professionals, pharmacists, chemists, botanists, and anyone with a keen interest in medicinal plants.
This stunning new book is a user-friendly guide to 320 plants.
A succinct and handy guide.
Comprehensive and scientifically accurate.
An impressive photographic guide to the most commonly used and best known medical plants of the world.
Not only beautiful to look at, but essential for anyone interested in alternative medicine . . . a 'must have.'
This book would make a great textbook and an important addition to any physician's shelf.
With the recent proliferation of books on medicinal plants, a text in this area has to really stand out with unique information or really good colored pictures. Medicinal Plants of the World satisfies these two requirements.
This reference also serves as a stellar photographic guide to therapeutic plants.
The text is a handsomely and profusely illustrated dictionary-type reference.