57 records matched your query       

Author:

Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma, author.

Title:

Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa / Abena Dove Osseo-Asare.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

vii, 300 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Plants, Medicinal--Africa.
Drug Discovery--Africa.
Drug Industry--economics--Africa.
Ethnopharmacology--Africa.
Medicine, African Traditional--Africa.
Ownership--Africa.
Materia medica, Vegetable--Africa.
Medicinal plants--Africa.
Ethnopharmacology--Africa.
Traditional medicine--Africa.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicinal plants.
Africa.

Other Titles:

Bitter roots (2014)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-288) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals -- Take Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy -- Take grains of paradise for love -- Take arrow poisons for the heart -- Take bitter roots for malaria -- Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger -- Conclusion: Toward bioprosperity.

ISBN:

022608602X (paperback : alk. paper)
9780226086026 (paperback : alk. paper)
022608552X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226085524 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)871018856

LCCN:

2013020550

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)