TY - BOOK AU - Steiner,Richard P. TI - Folk medicine: the art and the science SN - 0841209391 AV - RS164 .F64 1986 U1 - 615/.321 19 PY - 1986/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - American Chemical Society KW - Materia medica, Vegetable KW - Local KW - Plants, Medicinal KW - Medicine, Traditional KW - Medicine, Herbal KW - Traditional medicine KW - Medicinal plants N1 - Includes bibliographies and indexes; 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 ER -