CRC Press, 2023. — 229 p. — (Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants). — ISBN: 978-0-367-77586-5. This unique volume draws on the rich culture, folklore, and environment of medicinal plants in Ecuador, which includes the important rainforest region. This country has rich plant resources and a large diversity of plants. In particular, the Biotechnological Research Center of...
Article. Analecta. 2007. R. 16. Z. 1-2. S. 191-245. The author describes the history of Polish ethnobotany and provides a brief bibliography of works on this topic.
Springer, 2021. — 2106 p. — (Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions). — ISBN: 978-3-030-57407-9. Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that "traditional" knowledge is always in flux...
CRC Press, 2021. — 426 p. The book provides valuable information on wild plants and their ethnopharmacological properties, a discussion on ethnobotany, phytotherapy, diversity, and chemical and pharmacological properties including antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and antiprotozoal properties. The chapters include a wide range of case studies, giving updated evidence on the...
CRC Press, 2023. — 265 p. — ISBN: 978-1-032-05986-0. In this book, we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments stems from the lack of efficiency of existing remedies for certain illnesses. We have compiled information that may be useful to researchers in their quest to develop new drugs....
CRC Press, 2019. — 289 p. — ISBN: 9781138320666. Ethnobotany includes the traditional use of plants in different fields like medicine and agriculture. This book incorporates important studies based on ethnobotany of different geographic zones. The book covers medicinal and aromatic plants, ethnopharmacology, bioactive molecules, plants used in cancer, hypertension, disorders of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 384 p. This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture). Ethnobotany: A...
Soloturn: Entheobotanica, 2001. — 158 p. A unique comprehensive review of insufflated plant preparations used as shamanic inebriants. The history, ethnobotany, and chemistry of the 3 major classes of snuffs-Anadenanthera species, Virola species, and Nicotiana species-are thoroughly detailed. 57 monographs of lesser-known ethnomedicinal snuffs, including many ill-studied African...
Apple Academic Press, 2017. — 2242 p. This new 5-volume set, Ethnobotany of India , provides an informative overview of human-plant interrelationships in India, focusing on the regional plants and their medicinal properties and uses. Each volume focuses on a different significant region of India, including. Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan. Volume 2: Western Ghats and West...
Springer, 2023. — 410 p. Provides documentation for Baobab's global cultural significance. Elucidates the popular interest in Baobab identified as the "tree of life". Fully describes Baobab for its food potential suitable for dry environments. Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the...
Delve Publishing, 2021. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-1-77407-802-0. This book provides ethnobotanical data about the traditional uses of medicinal plants across the world. This book aims to analyze and evaluate the use of medicinal crops among different groups of people. The book mentions that medicinal plants can be used to treat various diseases, especially respiratory diseases and...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2019. — 333 p. Ethnobotany: Local Knowledge and Traditions discusses various plants that have actually been used in traditional medicine for a specific ailment. It desribes the biological effectiveness (activities) related to each "sickness" which have been scientifically verified. This book will also discuss the bioactivities established/determined that...
Springer, 2014. — 255 p. This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-cultural) rural development. A multi-disciplinary viewpoint is utilized, with an incorporation of historical,...
Springer, 2014. — 255 p. This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-cultural) rural development. A multi-disciplinary viewpoint is utilized, with an incorporation of historical,...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 336 p. In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common cold. To access such miracles, we need only to discover and protect these medicinal treasures before they succumb to the corrosive forces of the modern...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 378 p. — ISBN10: 1118961900, 13 978-1118961902. Ethnobotany: A Phytochemical Perspective explores the chemistry behind hundreds of plant medicines, dyes, fibers, flavors, poisons, insect repellants, and many other uses of botanicals. Bridging the gap between ethnobotany and chemistry, this book presents an introduction to botany, ethnobotany, and...
USA, CA: University of California Press, 2013. — 1081 p. Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies. Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks, its edible and oil-rich...
Routledge, 2005. — 452 p. ISBN 0-415-92746-3 (Hardcover). ISBN 0-203-02090-1 (Master e-book). This valuable reference will be useful for both scholars and general readers. It is both botanical and cultural, describing the role of plant in social life, regional customs, the arts, natural and covers all aspects of plant cultivation and migration. The text includes an explanation...
Timber Press, 2004. — 432 p. Assembled by two of the most distinguished botanical and ethnological scholars in Britain, this book chronicles the medicinal uses of more than 400 species used by the plain folk of Britain and Ireland. The history of these plants' usages has been mined from rich firsthand accounts captured by surveys, from more than 1000 manuscript volumes of the...