<p>The authors survey the ways in which we are losing our ability to survive biologically and present new approaches to regaining it. They examine our planet's green life-layer from every point of view: cultural and artistic, religious, ecological, economic, and scientific. These world respected botanists highlight the true worth of the Plant Kingdom for our lives - from Amazonian rain forests to African violets or tropical foliage plants at the windowsill. India and other lands help provide us with a remarkable arsenal of plant-derived medicines that cure leukemia and other malignancies, that control hypertension, and that also prevent the body from rejecting transplanted organs. Mexico, for instance, produces the wild yams that provide chemical raw materials for the contraceptive pill. And in Kenya, we meet a young wife who brings her to a respected dispenser of traditional medicines extracted from jungle greenery.</p>

Our Green and Living World: The Wisdom to Save It

Business & Money

Ayensu, Edward S.

Defilipps, Robert A.

Heywood, Vernon H.

Lucas, Grenville L.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Medicinal Plants of India, 2 Volumes (Medicinal Plants of the World, No. 5)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jain, Sudhanshu Kumar

Alternative Medicine

Reference Pubns

<p>Foreword: Some Historical and Modern Facts of the Brazalian Medicinal Plant Heritage; Introduction; Bibliography; Medicianl Plants of Brazil: A-Z; notes and synonyms, glossary, editor's acknowledgments, illustration credits, indices: medicinal, common names, species with b&amp;w illustrations throughout. Edited by Robert A. Defilipps. Medicinal Plants of the World series, No. 6: First Edition, 2000. Green cloth with gilt letttering to spine. ``This book is a synthesis of our knowledge of the medicinal and gical utilization of approximately 1,500 species and varieties of plants, occuring in 148 families of lichens, ferns, fern allies, gymnosperms and flowering plants. They represent the dicerse vegrational heritage of the richly endowed tropical nation of Brazil, including a wide selection of plants from such habitats as the semiarid woodlands of the Northeast, the vast Amazonian rain forest populated by Amerndian tribes and agricultural settlers, and the savannas of the Mato Grosso." from the jacket flap.</p>

Medicinal Plants of Brazil (MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE WORLD)

Mors, Walter B.

Rizzini, Carlos Toledo

Pereira, Nuno Alvares

Medical Books

"John Brown's People" is assigned ISBN 0917256476

History

Americas

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