Biblio. keywords : Ethnobotanique

Ethnobotany and the search for new drugs

Some of the most potent drugs in Western medicine are derived from plants, yet they are obtained form only about 90 of the estimated 250 000 species of plants. Some of those compounds have been used for centuries,..

Des plantes, des hommes, des territoires

Pour beaucoup d’entre vous, ce recueil d’ethnobotanique pourra apparaître comme encore un document très scientifique, réservé à une élite et à des spécialistes. Mais en fait, quoi de plus normal que l’étude des usages des plantes par les..

Ethnobotany – Principles and Applications

Interest in ethnobotany has increased dramatically in recent years. The search for new medicines by the pharmaceutical industry has turned to plant natural products and to ethnobotanical studies as a first step in bioprospecting. These studies are making..

Guide nutritionnel des plantes sauvages et cultivées

Ce guide donne en détail la teneur en nutriments de 150 espèces sauvages et cultivées, grâce à une présentation en deux parties complémentaires : • Pour chaque nutriment la liste de toutes les plantes qui le contiennent, •..

Eating and healing – traditional food as medicine

The long-standing notion of “food as medicine, medicine as food,” can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in..

Edible Medicines – An Ethnopharmacology of Food

Chile pepper is used today as a flavoring, but Aztecs also applied it for toothache, sore throat, and asthma. The tonic properties of coffee have been recorded in Islamic pharmacopoeia since the eleventh century, and many peoples have..