Medical Botany Plants Affecting Human Health

About this book

- Organized by body system and ailment makes it easy to locate appropriate therapies.
- Includes background on the physiology of major systems and ailments so readers can understand how and why a pharmaceutical, botanical, or dietary supplement works.
- Broad coverage includes green plants, fungi, and microorganisms.
- Includes extensive references and citations from both conventional and complimentary-alternative medical systems when natural products or their derivatives are involved.

New to This Edition:
- Richly illustrated and expanded
- Addresses the injurious, remedial, and psychoactive properties of thousands of plants, fungi, and microorganisms
- Each chapter focuses on a body system and thoroughly discusses how pharmaceuticals, botanicals, and dietary supplements affect its function in both normal and disease states.
 

Contents

Proprietary Registered and Trademark Names and Owners
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

PART I: INJURIOUS PLANTS
3. Internal Poisons
4. Immune System and Cell Modifiers
5. Allergies

PART II: REMEDIAL PLANTS
6. Cancer
7. Musculoskeletal System
8. Peripheral Nervous System
9. Heart and Circulation
10. Metabolism
11. Sensory Organs: Eye and Ear
12. Oral Hygiene
13. Gastrointestinal Tract
14. Respiratory System
15. Urogenital System
16. Skin
17. Deterrents: Antibiotics, Antiseptics, Pesticides, and Herbicides
18. Panaceas, Adaptogens, and Tonics

PART III: PSYCHOACTIVE PLANTS
19. Central Nervous System and Psychiatry
20. Stimulants
21. Hallucinogens
22. Depressants

Appendix A: Outline Classification of Plants
Appendix B: Bibliography of Traditional and Herbal Medicine and Ethnobotany
Glossary
Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Walter H. Lewis, PhD, DSc, is Professor Emeritus of Biology and University Research Ethnobotanist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also Senior Botanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis, PhD, DSc, is Professor of Biomedicine in Microbiology and Ethnobotany, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.