Research Catalog

Title

Medicinal plants : their role in health and biodiversity / edited by Timothy R. Tomlinson and Olayiwola Akerele.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Akerele, Olayiwola.
• Tomlinson, Timothy R.
• University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84232639
• World Health Organization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059041

Description

xii, 221 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• In 1978, the World Health Organization responded to increased interest in medicinal plants by convening a series of international consultations, seminars, and symposia to explore and promote the use of medicinal plants.
• Medicinal Plants presents the proceedings of the last of these symposia. It brings together an incredible range of information and sets out an overview on the use of medicinal plants that includes a discussion of a variety of issues - scientific, economic, regulatory, agricultural, cultural - focused on the importance of medicinal plants to primary health care and global health care reform.

Subject

• Botany, Medical > Congresses
• Botany
• Materia Medica
• Materia medica, Vegetable > Congresses
• Medicinal plants > Congresses
• Plants, Medicinal

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Proceedings of an international symposium cosponsored by the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania and the World Health Organization, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1993"--Half t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface: Promoting the Worldwide Use of Medicinal Plants / Timothy R. Tomlinson -- 1. A Case History of Plant-Derived Drug Research: Phyllanthus and Hepatitis B Virus / Baruch S. Blumberg -- 2. An Expanded Program for Medicinal Plants / Olayiwola Akerele -- 3. Exploiting Medicinal Plants: Why Do It the Hard Way? / Nathan Sivin -- 4. Safety, Efficacy, and the Use of Medicinal Plants / Norman R. Farnsworth -- 5. Economics and Medicinal Plants / Peter P. Principe -- 6. The Medicinal Plant Marketplace / Robert S. McCaleb -- 7. Linking Ethnopharmacology and Tropical Forest: Conservation in Belize / Michael J. Balick -- 8. Exploitation of Medicinal Plants / Akhtar Husain -- 9. Agronomics and Medicinal Plants / Dan Palevitch -- 10. The Role of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Traditional Medicine: A Personal Reflection and Case Study / William McKinley Klein, Jr. -- 11. The Legal Situation of Phytomedicines in Germany / Barbara Steinhoff --
• 12. Indonesia: The Utilization of Medicinal Plants for Primary Health Care / Djoko Hargono -- 13. Ethnopharmacological Surveys in Brazilian Extractive Reserves / Elaine Elisabetsky -- 14. Traditional Korean Medicine / Chong-Yul Kim -- 15. Utilization and Conservation of Medicinal Plants in China with Special Reference to Atractylodes lancea / Shan-An He -- 16. Medicinal Plants in the Philippines / Nelia P. Cortes-Maramba -- 17. Promising Practices in the Use of Medicinal Plants in the United States / Ara H. Dermarderosian -- 18. Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines within the European Community / Hubertus Cranz -- 19. The Evolving Status of Herbals and Phytomedicines in the United States / Robert G. Pinco -- Appendix A. WHO Guidelines for the Assessment of Herbal Medicines -- Appendix B. A Recommendation for Governments around the World.

ISBN

0812234316 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

98010113

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries