Folk medicine  the art and the science 
Richard P. Steiner, editor. 
 - Washington, D.C.  American Chemical Society  c1986. 
 - viii, 223 p.  ill.  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Aztec sources of some Mexican folk medicine / Bernard Ortiz de Montellano -- Zuni indian medicine / Scott Camazine -- Ayurveda / Narayan G. Patel -- Fijian medicinal plants / R.C. Cambie -- Medicinal plants of Papua New Guinea / David Holdsworth -- Australian medicinal plants / Geoffrey N. Vaughan -- Plants used in African traditional medicine / Kurt Hostettmann, Andrew Marston -- Antithrombotic agent of garlic / Eric Block -- Scientific basis of the therapeutic effects of ginseng / T.B. Ng, H.W. Yeung -- Anticancer Chinese drugs / Eric J. Lien, Wen Y. Li -- Some recent biochemical characterizations of Chinese herbal preparations / T.Y. Shen ... [et al.] -- Bioactive compounds from the three Chinese medicinal plants / Ren-Sheng Xu -- Zingiberaceous plants / Pittaya Tuntiwachwuttikul ... [et al.] -- Alkaloid components of Zizyphus plants / Byung Hoon Han, Myung Hwan Park. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0841209391 0841209464 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85022904 //r93 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Materia medica, Vegetable<br/>Plants, Medicinal<br/>Medicine, Traditional<br/>Medicine, Herbal.<br/>Traditional medicine<br/>Medicinal plants
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RS164  / .F64 1986 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615/.321 
<br/><br/><label>National Agricultural Library Call No.: </label>RS164.F64 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>QV 766 F666