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Handbook of African Medicinal Plants

By: Maurice M Iwu(Author)
464 pages, 74 b/w photos, 1 table
Publisher: CRC Press
Handbook of African Medicinal Plants
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  • Handbook of African Medicinal Plants ISBN: 9780849342660 Edition: 1 Hardback Dec 1993 Out of Print #17995
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Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of over 1,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine. It gives a concise description of the materia medica of an enormous and extensively varied continent, with well over 2,000 distinct tribes and several distinct floras. A detailed pharmacognostical profile of the major herbs is presented, including the common name, synonyms, African names, habitat and distribution, medicinal uses, chemical constituents, and published pharmacologic activity. This extensive catalog of plants is presented both in alphabetic order and according to family. References are cited from over 600 publications, and photographs and sketches illustrate many of the plants.Handbook of African Medicinal Plants also provides an introduction to African cosmology and beliefs as they relate to healing and the use of herbs. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants is an invaluable, practical desk reference that should be on Handbook of African Medicinal Plantsshelf of every pharmacognosist, ethnobiologist, botanist, ecologist, phytochemist, pharmacologist, and scientist interested in tropical plant utilization as a tool for the conservation of biodiversity and as a source of new drug leads.

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By: Maurice M Iwu(Author)
464 pages, 74 b/w photos, 1 table
Publisher: CRC Press
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