Potent natural medicines : Mother Nature's pharmacy
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Chelsea House ,
c2006
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Progress in health care
- 2. The early plant hunters
- 3. The framework of folk medicine
- 4. How medicines work
- 5. Vitamins
- 6. The regulation of medicines
- 7. South american expeditions
- 8. The story of quinine
- 9. The story of curare
- 10. Hormones
- 11. Synthesis
- 12. Ethnobotany comes of age
- 13. Testing for "Leads" and beyond
- 14. The national institutes of health
- 15. Searching for natural materials in the 21st century