Plants for Food and Medicine
Author: Hew. D. V. Prendergast
ISBN: 9781900347556
Publisher: Saltway Publishing
Year first published: 15 Jan 2000
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781900347556
Publisher: Saltway Publishing
Year first published: 15 Jan 2000
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
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.