Eating and healing
Subtitle: traditional food as medicine
By: Andrea Pieroni, Lisa Leimar Price, editors.
Contributors: Pieroni, Andrea.; Price, Lisa Leimar.
Publisher: Food Products Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781560229827; 9781560229834
Subjects: Medicinal plants.; Diet therapy.; Ethnobotany.; Traditional medicine.; Wild plants, Edible -- Therapeutic use.; Diet Therapy.; Medicine, Traditional.; Plants, Edible.; Plants, Medicinal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Edible wild plants as food and as medicine / Louis E. Grivetti; title: Tibetan foods and medicines / Patrick L. Owen; title: Wild food plants in farming environments with special reference to northeast Thailand, food as functional and medicinal, and the social roles of women / Lisa Leimar Price; title: Functional foods or food medicines? / Andrea Pieroni, Cassandra L. Quave; title: Digestive beverages as a medicinal food in a cattle-farming community in northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria) / Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Elia San Miguel, Ramón Morales; title: "The forest and the seaweed" / Nancy J. Turner, Helen Clifton; title: Medicinal herb quality in the United States / Craig A. Hassel ... [et al.]; title: Balancing the system / Marsha B. Quinlan, Robert J. Quinlan; title: Medicinal foods in Cuba / Gabriele Volpato, Daimy Godínez; title: Healthy fish / Alpina Begossi, Natalia Hanazaki, Rossano M. Ramos; title: Edible and healing plants in the ethnobotany of native inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic forest areas of Brazil / Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni, Alpina Begossi; title: Food medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department) / Ina Vandebroek, Sabino Sanca; title: Gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal use in a Mapuche community of northwest Patagonia / Ana H. Ladio; title: Dietary and medicinal use of traditional herbs among the Luo of western Kenya / Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa, Jens Aagaard-Hansen; title: Ethnomycology in Africa with particular reference to the rain forest zone of south Cameroon / Thomas W. Kuyper; title: Aspects of food medicine and ethnopharmacology in Morocco / Mohamed Eddouks.