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7%OFFSiri Von Reis - New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium - 9780674617650 - V9780674617650
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New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

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Description for New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium Hardcover. This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1Illustrations. BIC Classification: MMG; PST; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.

This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists. Following the same criteria as in earlier investigations, the authors have examined the vast holdings of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium to select little-known plant uses and to record any note suggesting biodynamic constituents--i.e., those having effects on living tissue--from skin irritants and poisons and medications of any kind to foods, beverages, and spices. They have also included species ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674617650
SKU
V9780674617650
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About Siri Von Reis
Siri von Reis is Honorary Curator of Ethnobotany at The New York Botanical Garden, Honorary Research Associate in Ethnopharmacology at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, and a Fellow of The Linnean Society of London Frank J. Lipp, Jr., recently completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research.

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