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Author : Martha Hanna-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN : 9768108789
Author : Renate Wilmanowicz
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1456503146
Based on 30 years of research and interviews this book describes 70 plants, which are used by Bahamians to treat different health problems. Without prejudice this book gives structured information about different names, botany, habitat, preparation and uses of these plants as well as about possible side effects or toxicity. Besides that some history about The Bahamas, a short description of Bahamian vegetation, a list of toxic plants and some pests. A detailed glossary and indication list make it a nice reference for herbalists, (ethno-)botanists, students and interested families. The bibliography helps to find interesting books and links for further research. With this book the author hopes to help save valuable knowledge about medicinal plants, named "Bush Medicine" by the Bahamians. It has shown to be helpful since many generations and fortunately the Bahamians are already getting more aware of this field, starting to preserve and cultivate more plants for a better protection and use.
Author : Jeffrey Holt McCormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medicinal plants
ISBN : 0983767300
Author : Mrs. Leslie Higgs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023100676
Author : Portia Brown Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023330836
Author : Michael Craton,Gail Saunders
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0820322849
The present work concludes the important and monumental undertaking of Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, creating the most thorough and comprehensive history yet written of a Caribbean country and its people. In the first volume Michael Craton and Gail Saunders traced the developments of a unique archipelagic nation from aboriginal times to the period just before emancipation. This long-awaited second volume offers a description and interpretation of the social developments of the Bahamas in the years from 1830 to the present. Volume Two divides this period into three chronological sections, dealing first with adjustments to emancipation by former masters and former slaves between 1834 and 1900, followed by a study of the slow process of modernization between 1900 and 1973 that combines a systematic study of the stimulus of social change, a candid examination of current problems, and a penetrating but sympathetic analysis of what makes the Bahamas and Bahamians distinctive in the world. This work is an eminent product of the New Social History, intended for Bahamians, others interested in the Bahamas, and scholars alike. It skillfully interweaves generalizations and regional comparisons with particular examples, drawn from travelers' accounts, autobiographies, private letters, and the imaginative reconstruction of official dispatches and newspaper reports. Lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs and original maps, it stands as a model for forthcoming histories of similar small ex-colonial nations in the region.
Author : Chelle Koster-Walton
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581578539
A guide to the best beaches, restaurants, casinos and shopping—and everything else—that the Bahamas has to offer. Explorer's Guide The Bahamas: A Great Destination treads confidently where other guidebooks stop short: it goes past the beaches, casinos, and duty-free shops to bring you into ancestral lands, fishing settlements, goat farms, conch shacks, theaters, and art galleries. The Bahamas’ clear waters and multihued coral reefs are gifts just waiting to be unwrapped.
Author : Suzanne Nielsen,Schnabel Peter C.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 9990407592
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Florida
ISBN : 161703455X
Author : James K. Kirkland,Holly F. Matthews,Charles W. Sullivan III,Karen Baldwin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822382584
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
Author : Nina L. Etkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135882778
The aim of this volume is to promote a bio-behavioral focus for indigenous plant research.
Author : A. Douglas Kinghorn,Heinz Falk,Simon Gibbons,Jun'ichi Kobayashi,Yoshinori Asakawa,Ji-Kai Liu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030010997
The first contribution summarizes current trends in research on medicinal plants in Mexico with emphasis on work carried out at the authors' laboratories. The most relevant phytochemical and pharmacological profiles of a selected group of plants used widely for treating major national health problems are described. The second contribution provides a detailed survey of the so far reported literature data on the capacities of selected oxyprenylated phenylpropanoids and polyketides to trigger receptors, enzymes, and other types of cellular factors for which they exhibit a high degree of affinity and therefore evoke specifice responses. And the third contribution discusses aspects of endophytic actinobacterial biology and chemistry, including biosynthesis and total synthesis of secondary metabolites produced in culture. It also presents perspectives fo the future of microbial biodiscovery, with emphasis on the seondary metabolism of endophytic actinobacteria.
Author : David Elliston Allen,Gabrielle Hatfield
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0881926388
Firsthand accounts of the medicinal uses of more than 400 species as told by the plain folk of Britain and Ireland. Rich in lore and practical wisdom of the ages.
Author : Erika Brady
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874214543
Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the real-life complexities of health belief systems as they observably exist and are applied by contemporary Americans. Recent research strongly suggests that individuals construct their health belief systmes from diverse sources of authority, including community and ethnic tradition, education, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, the influence of popular media, and perception of the goals and means of formal medicine. Healing Logics explores the diversity of these belief systems and how they interact—in competing, conflicting, and sometimes remarkably congruent ways. This book contains essays by leading scholars in the field and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine.
Author : Ivan A. Ross
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781592593651
Ivan Ross takes advantage of the significant growth in the amount of new data available to update and expand his much acclaimed Medicinal Plants of the World: Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses, Volume 1. This considerably enhanced second edition contains new research and references on the immunomodulatory activity present in Allium sativum, Mangifera indica, and Punica granatum, the antidiabetic effects of Momoridica charantia and Mucuna pruriens, the antiinflammatory activity found in Mangifera indica and Arbus precatorius, the cholesterol lowering effect of Allium sativum and Moringa pterygosperma, and the antitumor effect of Arbus precatorius and Moringa pterygosperma. There are also important new findings concerning the antiherpes simplex virus activity of Mangifera indica, the anti-Parkinson's activity of Mucuna pruriens, the antiviral activity in Phyllanthus niruri and Jatropha curcas, the hyperthyroid regulation properties of Moringa pterygosperma, and the antioxidant activity of Mangifera indica, Punica granatum, Psidium guajava, and Allium sativum. Allium sativum is highlighted for its treatment of unstable angina pectoris, sickle red blood cell dehydration inhibition, senescence ameliorative, chemoprotective, cardiovascular, antineoplastic, anticarcinogenic, and antiatherogenic effects. This revised and enhanced edition provides details on traditional medicinal uses, chemical constituents, pharmacological activities, clinical trials, color illustrations, Latin names, botanical descriptions, as well as providing an index and extensive bibliographies. Authoritative and exhaustively compiled, Medicinal Plants of the World: Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses, Volume 1, 2nd Edition offers pharmacists, physicians, medicinal chemists, toxicologists, and phytochemists a universal reference on twenty-six of the most widely used medicinal plants in the world.