Edible medicines
Subtitle: an ethnopharmacology of food
By: Nina L. Etkin.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780816520930
Subjects: Food habits; Food preferences; Ethnopharmacology; Traditional medicine; Alternative medicine; Nutrition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Food in the history of biomedicine; title: Spices : the pharmacology of the exotic; title: Fermented foods and beverages; title: The lives of social plants; title: Medicinal qualities of animal foods; title: Health in the marketplace : complementary and alternative medicine, functional foods, and more; title: Appendix: Some common spices.