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CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices

CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices

Duke, James A.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral SciencePlant Based Remedies

ISBN10: 0367395762
ISBN13: 9780367395766
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: Sep 23 2019
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Let food be your medicine, medicine your food.
-Hippocrates, 2400 B.C.

When the Father of Medicine uttered those famous words, spices were as important for medicine, embalming, preserving food, and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, onion, and turmeric will assume relatively more medicinal importance again, as the economic costs and knowledge of the side-effects of prescription pharmaceuticals increase. After all, each spice contains thousands of useful phytochemicals. Pharmaceuticals usually contain only one or two.

Discover the Science behind the Folklore

Spices are important medicines that have withstood the empirical tests of millennia. Nearly 5,000 years ago Charak, the father of Ayurvedic medicine, claimed that garlic lightens the blood, reduces tumors, and is an aphrodisiac tonic. Today scientists say it thins the blood, prevents cancer, and increases libido. For centuries people worldwide have used spices to cure a myriad of ailments and to preserve foods. Now science is proving that these spices may preserve us with their antioxidant and antiseptic activities. Organized by scientific name, the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices provides the science behind the folklore of over 60 popular spices. For each spice, it lists:

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