Handbook of Medicinal Herbs Contributor(s): Duke, James A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1315893576 ISBN-13: 9781315893570 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $420.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Herbal Medications - Health & Fitness | Alternative Therapies - Science | Life Sciences - General |
Physical Information: 689 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Health & Fitness |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Practical, Authoritative Compendium Designed to enable fast access to important information, this hand-book presents information in both catalog and tabular forms. In the catalog section, plants are presented alphabetically by scientific name. (The index permits you to locate an herb by its common name.) A detailed sketch of the chief identifying features accompa-nies most catalog entries. For each species the following information, as available, is presented and referenced: Given a plant species, you can easily determine its toxins; or, given a toxin, you can discover which plants contain it. These and other data are presented in convenient tabular formats as appendixes to the handbook. Other information contained in these tables include toxicity ranking and other toxicity data (as applicable), such as mode of contact, organs affected, and lethal dose; and proximate analyses of selected foods. These tables are titled: |