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Author : T. H. Arnold
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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:
Author : Ben-Erik Van Wyk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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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
Author : Ben-Erik Van Wyk
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781875093441
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Medicinal Plants of the World written by Ben-Erik Van Wyk and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides a comprehensive and scientifically accurate guide to the best-known and most important medicinal plants, including those of special commercial or historical interest. It includes descriptions of more than 300 medicinal plants and their close relatives, with each entry summarising botanical background, geographical origin, therapeutic category, historical and modern uses, active ingredients, and pharmacological effects. Over 500 full-color photographs are included to assist in the identification of the plants.
Author : Ben-Erik Van Wyk
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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.
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Publisher : Bernan Press
ISBN 13 : 9789994927920
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Green Gold written by and published by Bernan Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicinal plants and plant-derived medicine are widely used in tratitional cultures all over the world and they are becoming increasingly popular in modern society as natural alternatives to synthetic chemicals. It is a fact that many cultures throughout the world still rely on indigenous medical plants for the primary health care needs. To date, 25% of modern medicines are derived from plants that have been used by traditional medical practitioners. The aim of the unique book is to provide scientific, technical and socio-economic data on ten medicinal plants that have been successfully commercialised in South and East Africa and which the authors believe offer considerable further scope for wealth creation and employment. These profiles provide concreate examples of the 'green gold' that lies waiting to be developed in Southern Africa.
Author : Margaret Joan Roberts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004436421
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa written by Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.
Author : Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849342660
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)
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 1993-02-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The book 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 the bookshelf 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.
Author : Josef Johannes Jacobus De Beer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
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:
Author : Steven Johnson (Professor)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781775842620
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Orchids of South Africa written by Steven Johnson (Professor) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the species and distribution map accompany the images, along with a color bar indication flowering period. The more than 2,500 beautiful images have been taken by specialist photographer Herbert Staerker, and show the important diagnostic details for each species. Written by authorities on the topic, this lavish and detailed book will appeal to all those with an interest in the popular field of orchids worldwide. With Benny Bytebier and Herbert Staerker.
Author : Henrik Greve Blessing
Publisher : Fagbokforlaget
ISBN 13 : 9788274775763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)
Download or read book South African Traditional Medicinal Plants from KwaZulu-Natal written by Henrik Greve Blessing and published by Fagbokforlaget. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African Traditional Medicinal Plants from KwaZulu-Natal is based on the beautiful notebooks that the Norwegian medical doctor Henrik Greve Blessing wrote when he was visiting the KwaZulu-Natal district in the years 1901 -1904. Blessing was the medical doctor on board the ship "Fram" that went towards the North Pole with Fridtjof Nansen during the years 1893-96. In these notebooks he described 98 plants, both botanically and with their local use for illnesses, pains and as agents against poisoning. For most plants the only names given were the Zulunames. The last part of this book is a facsimile of Blessing's original notebooks. Scientists from Norway and South Africa have identified the plants, taken photographs of them, and described the use of the plants traditionally as well as modern knowledge about effects. The book is both of cultural, medicinal and pharmaceutical historic interest, and represents part of the historic relations between South Africa and Norway --
Author : Frits Van Oudtshoorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920217358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Guide to Grasses of Southern Africa written by Frits Van Oudtshoorn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only full color guide to common grasses of southern Africa which also includes descriptions of the most important grasses in southern Africa
Author : G. I. M. Mzamane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Some Medicinal Magical and Edible Plants Used Among Some Bantu Tribes in South Africa written by G. I. M. Mzamane and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466571985
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Handbook of African Medicinal Plants written by Maurice M. Iwu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 446 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
Author : J. O. Kokwaro
Publisher : University of Nairobi Press
ISBN 13 : 9966846840
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Medicinal Plants of East Africa written by J. O. Kokwaro and published by University of Nairobi Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicinal Plants of East Africa is a revised edition of the book first published in 1976 on herbal remedies and he traditional medical practice of East Africa. The book covers the rich diversity of plants found in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, from sea to alpine plants. East Africa also has a rich ethnic diversity and a large number of herbalists whose traditional knowledge and practices are also covered in the book. Over 1500 species are described and for the first time over 200 of these herbs have been illustrated. Also included are maps detailing where the herbs were collected and an ethnographic map detailing the tribes of each herbalist whose knowledge is contained in the book. John Kokwaro is an Eminent Professor of Botany and a research specialist on herbal remedies at the University of Nairobi.
Author : Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466571977
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
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.
Author : Alan Haxton Scott
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Zulu Medicinal Plants written by Alan Haxton Scott and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To provide a context where patterns of usage can be easily observed, the plants have been arranged in phylogenetic order, following the generic numbering system used in the most South African herbaria.
