Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa

Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa /

"For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014
Subjects:
Materia medica, Vegetable > Africa.
Medicinal plants > Africa.
Botany, Medical.
Medicinal plants.
Property.
Plants, Medicinal
Drug Discovery
Drug Industry > economics
Ethnopharmacology
Medicine, African Traditional
Ownership
Africa.
Africa
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals
  • Take Madagascar periwinkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy
  • Take grains of paradise for love
  • Take arrow poisons for the heart
  • Take bitter roots for malaria
  • Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger
  • Conclusion: Toward bioprosperity.

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