Plants for Food and Medicine
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Plants for Food and Medicine
By (Author) Hew. D. V. Prendergast
Edited by N. L. Etkin
Edited by D. R. Harris
Royal Botanic Gardens
Kew Publishing
1st January 1998
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies
581.63
Physical Properties
Paperback
448
Width 170mm, Height 244mm
716g
Description
Plants for Food and Medicine, the proceedings of the 1996 Economic Botany and the International Society of Ethnopharmacology Conference. Explores the commercial and scientific potential of plants for the food, health and drug industries. It focuses on the current state of `pharmafoods' - how medicinal plants are shaping modern medicine; ethnopharmacology; new drug development; biodiversity and conservation; and the valuation of wild plant resources.
