medical botany

Shares some interesting facts about plants, describes plants that can be used as medicines, and discusses the need for plant safety. Includes a glossary and resources for further research.

A guide to the worlds of botany and medicine: including how to identify, collect, and preserve plants; how to grow healthful herbs; and their many uses in cooking, crafts, and cosmetics.

An identification guide to over five hundred medicinal plants, with information on the known uses of each plant, line drawings, and color photographs. Includes an index to medical topics.

Describes the biological and ecological importance of medicinal plants.

Identifies medicinal plants and their natural habitats while also explaining how these plants are found and tested for medical value.

An illustrated identification guide that profiles North American plants and trees known for their medicinal properties, providing information on physical characteristics, habitat, distribution, medicinal properties and uses, similar useful plants, and dangerous and poisonous plants; also provides medical and botanical glossaries.

Discusses the marriage of natural products, indigenous wisdom, and biotechnology and details discoveries that are producing medical products such as painkillers, anticoagulants and antitumor agents.

Illustrated guide to over 550 plants used in herbal medicine, discussing each plant's history, traditions, and folklore as well as what is known from scientific research about its active constituents, key actions, and potential new uses. Includes an overview of the history of herbal medicine and features on herbal medicine in countries throughout the world.