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An Ethnobotanical And Anthropological Study Of The Medicinal And Magic Plants Of Southern Bushmanland Northern Cape South Africa
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Book Synopsis An Ethnobotanical and Anthropological Study of the Medicinal and Magic Plants of Southern Bushmanland, Northern Cape, South Africa by : Josef Johannes Jacobus De Beer
Download or read book An Ethnobotanical and Anthropological Study of the Medicinal and Magic Plants of Southern Bushmanland, Northern Cape, South Africa written by Josef Johannes Jacobus De Beer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medicinal and Magical Plants of Southern Africa by : T. H. Arnold
Download or read book Medicinal and Magical Plants of Southern Africa written by T. H. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medicinal Plants of South Africa by : Ben-Erik Van Wyk
Download or read book Medicinal Plants of South Africa written by Ben-Erik Van Wyk and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide of the most commonly used and best known SA medicinal plants including their botany, traditional uses and active ingredients
Book Synopsis People's Plants by : Ben-Erik Van Wyk
Download or read book People's Plants written by Ben-Erik Van Wyk and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People's Plants is a photographic guide to the useful plants of Southern Africa. Traditional and contemporary uses of more than 650 plants are described and illustrated in 20 chapters, each dealing with a specific category of plant use. More than 530 photographs.
Book Synopsis Botanical Exploration Southern Africa by : Mary Gunn
Download or read book Botanical Exploration Southern Africa written by Mary Gunn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
Book Synopsis Zulu Medicinal Plants by : Anne Hutchings
Download or read book Zulu Medicinal Plants written by Anne Hutchings and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The work should be of use to botanists, chemists, ethnopharmacologists, medical workers and anthropologists. Recent research indicates that Zulu traditional medicine is a working, adaptive and self-monitoring system, eminently worthy of further research. With the flora from which it comes, it is a heritage to be highly valued and conserved."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Underexplored Medicinal Plants from Sub-Saharan Africa by : Namrita Lall
Download or read book Underexplored Medicinal Plants from Sub-Saharan Africa written by Namrita Lall and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underexplored Medicinal Plants from Sub-Saharan Africa: Plants with Therapeutic Potential for Human Health examines a comprehensive selection of rarely explored plants that have been underestimated for their therapeutic value. The book contains monographs of medicinal plants, outlining their botanical description, geographical distribution, ethnobotanical usage, chemical constituents, sample and standard preparations and methods, and pharmacological properties. With expert contributors from South Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cameroon and Nigeria, and the compilation of ethnobotanical, taxonomic and pharmacologic information for each species, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, academics in pharmacology, ethnopharmacology, medicinal plant sciences, and more. Explores the therapeutic potential of a comprehensive selection of underexplored and underutilized medicinal plants in sub-Sahara Africa Provides a summary table of structures of any known natural products, including details of plant source (chapter) and observed activity (e.g. anticancer, antibacterial) Includes contributions from experts from South African, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cameroon and Nigeria
Book Synopsis Handbook of African Medicinal Plants, Second Edition by : Maurice M. Iwu
Download or read book Handbook of African Medicinal Plants, Second Edition written by Maurice M. Iwu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural products market largely due to lack of practical information. This updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of more than 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, with full-color photographs and references from over 1,100 publications. The first part of the book contains a catalog of the plants used as ingredients for the preparation of traditional remedies, including their medicinal uses and the parts of the plant used. This is followed by a pharmacognostical profile of 170 of the major herbs, with a brief description of the diagnostic features of the leaves, flowers, and fruits and monographs with botanical names, common names, synonyms, African names, habitat and distribution, ethnomedicinal uses, chemical constituents, and reported pharmacological activity. The second part of the book provides an introduction to African traditional medicine, outlining African cosmology and beliefs as they relate to healing and the use of herbs, health foods, and medicinal plants. This book presents scientific documentation of the correlation between the observed folk use and demonstrable biological activity, as well as the characterized constituents of the plants.
Book Synopsis Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa by : Rainer W. Bussmann
Download or read book Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa written by Rainer W. Bussmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content. The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries. The objective of this new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. We anticipate including the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.
Book Synopsis Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Africa by : Abayomi Sofowora
Download or read book Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Africa written by Abayomi Sofowora and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1982 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Indigenous Healing Plants by : Margaret Joan Roberts
Download or read book Indigenous Healing Plants written by Margaret Joan Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concentrates on the traditional ways in which indigenous plants have been used medicinally and otherwise in South Africa for centuries. Many of these remedies survive to this day and are used by people of all races countrywide.
Book Synopsis Traditional and Religious Plants of West Africa by : Daniel K. Abbiw
Download or read book Traditional and Religious Plants of West Africa written by Daniel K. Abbiw and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional and Religious Plants of West Africa is a collection of plant uses that appear to be based on beliefs, symbols, signs and values. Nothing like this has been attempted before for the Region since the information has been scattered in books, papers and among traditional men and women themselves. Much of this local information is in danger of being lost as traditional rural life gives way to urban living with its detachment from the countryside. The information has been compiled from literature, general observation and from original, reliably authoritative and undeniably genuine knowledge extracted from exclusive interviews with elders, medicine-men, fetish priests and witch-doctors - many though illiterate and belonging to the dying breed.This book will not only be a constant source of reference, but the text in its own right will intrigue readers. It is prepared for the general reader as well as the specialist; and for the traditionalist as well as the scientist. Hence, technical terms are kept to a minimum or where used are fully explained.
Download or read book Muthi & Myths written by Heather Dugmore and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book are fifty-two compelling tales that will lead the reader on a journey of discovery of the African continent. It tracks the ancient grail of traditional African medicine or muthi. The journey takes one year, with one story for each of the fifty-two weeks. Many of the stories inherited through Africa s compelling oral tradition are between these covers: committed to paper for the first time ever.The ancient African people were the first aromatherapists who well understood the effect of plants on the human body, mind and soul. Innately spiritual, the thousands of lineages of African people across thousands of years have all used plant medicines for healing, always with the blessing of their ancestors.Knowledge of African plant mythology and its associated healing practices is most certainly a grail because on this great continent we call Africa; knowledge has always been an oral tradition. Because it was never written down, thousands of years of healing wisdom and intelligence have been lost in the transference from one generation to the next.This book endeavors to bring to light the deep history of fifty-two of the thousands of indigenous medicinal plants of Africa before it is too late. The focus is towards Southern Africa because this region is a hotspot of cultural and botanical diversity. Unlike the healing knowledge of other ancient cultures, such as India or China, little of Africa s healing history is recorded.As you read the stories about fifty-two of the continent s prominent indigenous plant cures, the authors hope you, too, will experience some of the magnetism, mystery and wisdom of Africa. They hope it will help you understand a bit more about yourself and about our species: the human being."
Book Synopsis An Emergent Ethnomedicine: Rastafari Bush Doctors in the Western Cape, South Africa by : Lisa Erin Philander
Download or read book An Emergent Ethnomedicine: Rastafari Bush Doctors in the Western Cape, South Africa written by Lisa Erin Philander and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is based upon research of an emergent ethnomedicine in a botanically rich area, the Western Cape of South Africa. It examines the interface between ethnobotany and medical anthropology by investigating the biological and social factors related to the knowledge, use and trade of medicinal plants by Cape bush doctors. Incredible syncretism was observed in the identity formation of this homogenous urban group of healers who combined elements of a globally recognized eco-religion and sociopolitical movement Rastafari with several South African cultures through knowledge of medicinal plants. By rejecting colonial principals, including capitalistic biomedical systems, bush doctors have crafted a niche acquiring knowledge and herbal remedies for the treatment of common ailments. Transmission amongst Rastas and trail-and-error experimentation with herbs emphasize that plant knowledge is situational and arises through relationships. From an estimated 200 bush doctors in the Cape, 62 almost exclusively middle-aged coloured males were interviewed. They declared their mission was 'to heal all people' through a reintroduction of KhoiSan healing traditions, an indigenous ancestry largely rejected by coloureds during apartheid. An ethnobotany of bush doctors revealed that of 192 species, 181 were medicinal and included various herbs important to most South African cultural groups. This largely herbaceous pharmacopeia is narrow compared to the region's high biodiversity and thirty-three species were identified as conservation priorities. The presence of bush doctors at transportation hubs as herbal hawkers creates a diversified economy through cultivation of relationships with primarily disadvantaged coloured and black consumers. The consumption, trade and sale of local plants by bush doctors represent efforts to embody the landscape; it reasserts coloured links to indigeneity, renews respect for their heritage and affords rights to resources. By evoking tradition within their tolerant philosophy, leaders of this emergent ethnomedicine develop a racially equitable and ecologically sustainable platform for health care evidenced by medicinal plant gardens in townships and transmission of diverse ethnomedical knowledge. Bush doctors are legitimized through the performance of transmission. This phytomedicinal knowledge reifies an ideology, repositioning coloureds in a moderate stance between colonial biomedicine and traditional African ethnomedicines, but also creates a unified South African medicine.
Book Synopsis Medicinal Plants of West Africa by : Edward S. Ayensu
Download or read book Medicinal Plants of West Africa written by Edward S. Ayensu and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Medicinal Plants by : Abayomi Sofowora
Download or read book African Medicinal Plants written by Abayomi Sofowora and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa by : Rainer W. Bussmann
Download or read book Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa written by Rainer W. Bussmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content. The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries. The objective of this new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. We anticipate including the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.
