Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, and Pharmacology (Herbs, Spices, & Medicinal Plants) [Hardcover]

Lyle E. Craker (Author), James E. Simon (Author)

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Hardcover: 255 pages
Publisher: Haworth Pr Inc; 1 edition (June 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 156022018X
ISBN-13: 978-1560220183
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,042,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In China, traditional and herbal medicines play a role in people's health equal to that of synthetic drugs and antibiotics. Read the first page

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bracteatum var, bracteatum plants, percent thebaine, thebaine content, fir needle oil, dominant alkaloid, chronic tracheitis, metho salt, minor alkaloids, morphinan alkaloids, alkaloid profiles, oil ducts, alkaloid patterns, total alkaloid content, chemical races, collateral vascular bundles, major alkaloid, leafy cuttings, species sect, antitussive activity, hermaphroditic flowers, herbal drugs, ginseng plants, root primordia, hypotensive activity

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University Press, Zhongcaoyao Tongxun, Flora Europaea, Research Group, New York, Acta Chim, North America, Other Compounds, National Medical Journal of China, West Indian, New Delhi, Oxytona Bernh, Flora Europeae, Gattung Papaver, People's Medical Publishing House, Amerind Publishing Company, Department of Pharmacology, Flora of Ceylon, Kexue Tongbao, Revised Handbook, Academia Sinica, Ginseng Conf, Ginseng Symp, Acta Physiol, Amaral Franco

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This book cites 31 books:

Flora Europaea, Vol. 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) by D. A. Webb on 8 pages
A Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon - Volume 9 by M. D. Dassanayake on 5 pages
Evolution of Crop Plants by Joseph Smartt on 4 pages
Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum : Supplementum I) by Ellen R. Farr on page 134, and page 233
Flora of West Tropical Africa: v.3 (Vol 3) by John Hutchinson on page 234, and page 236

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Herbal Emissaries by Steven Foster in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Sage: The Genus Salvia (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles) by Spiridon E. Kintzios on page 105, and page 107
Herbal Medicinals: A Clinician's Guide by Lucinda Miller on page 274
Taxol: Science and Applications (Pharmacology and Toxicology) by Matthew Suffness on page 69
Phytochemicals as Bioactive Agents by Wayne R. Bidlack on page 18

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