Herbal medicine in Yemen : traditional knowledge and practice, and their value for today's world /

Herbal medicine in Yemen : traditional knowledge and practice, and their value for today's world /

Traditional medical lore along with its practitioners - druggists and healers - survives in Yemen today. Owing to the country's rich biodiversity, the main body of the medicines is plant-based. This book features fourteen scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East (three of them fr...

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Other Authors: Hehmeyer, Ingrid., Scho˜nig, Hannelore., Regourd, Anne.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 96.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223295.

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Herbs > Therapeutic use > Yemen (Republic)
Traditional medicine > Yemen (Republic)
Medicinal plants > Yemen (Republic)
Materia medica, Vegetable > Yemen (Republic)
Medicine, Arab.

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Call Number: RM666.H33 H4673 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Sheikh A. Bawazir
  • Introduction /
  • Hanne Schönig and Ingrid Hehmeyer
  • The Validity of Traditional Medicine as an Effective Tool in Issues of Human Health /
  • Ingrid Hehmeyer
  • Eastern Mediterranean Pharmacology and India Trade as a Background for Yemeni Medieval Medicinal Plants /
  • Efraim Lev
  • Magic and Medicine in a Thirteenth-century Treatise on the Science of the Stars /
  • Petra G. Schmidl
  • Qāt and Traditional Healing in Yemen /
  • Daniel Martin Varisco
  • The Aloe and the Frankincense Tree in Southern Arabia: Different Approaches to Their Use /
  • Miranda Morris
  • Healing through Medicinal Plants: Old Yemenite Therapeutic Traditions and Their Application in Jerusalem Today /
  • Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
  • Honey, Coffee, and Tea in Cultural Practices of Hadramawt /
  • Mikhail Rodionov
  • From Medicinal Plants of Yemen to Therapeutic Herbal Drugs /
  • Jacques Fleurentin
  • The Miraculous Plant halqa (Cyphostemma digitatum): From Grandmother's Kitchen in Yemen's South-western Highlands to Modern Medicinal and Culinary Applications /
  • Mohammed Al-Duais and Gottfried Jetschke
  • A Pharmacist's View of the Potential Value to Modern Medicine of Plants and Fungi Used by Traditional Medicine in Yemen /
  • Ulrike Lindequist
  • Health Issues in the Mountains of Yemen: Healing Practices as Part of Farmers' Traditional Knowledge /
  • Amin Al-Hakimi , Anhar Ya'ni and Frédéric Pelat
  • Indices /
  • Ingrid Hehmeyer and Hanne Schönig.