Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Native Medicinal Ethnobotany of Central Coastal California

Native Medicinal Ethnobotany of Central Coastal California

Rayburn, Keith

Paperback

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 3659107522
ISBN13: 9783659107528
Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Pub
Published: Apr 27 2012
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With a history of eight thousand years of empirical experimentation, it's likely that at least some of the medicinal plants utilized by the Ohlone provided true relief from illness. Here is a presentation of what is known of these uses, arranged in conceptual categories, along with discussions of the relevance of ancient ethnobotanical knowledge to the modern world. The author - a practicing physician - provides an argument for why further biochemical, pharmacological, and clinical study of such ethnobotanical therapies would be useful. He asks: What if many of these plants or simple extracts of these plants were indeed scientifically proven to be unequivocally beneficial to human health? Is it possible that substantial benefits would accrue to public health and to environmental health, as a result of improved access and affordability, and from favorable agroecological characteristics of regionally native medicinal plants?

Also in

Medical Reference

View All