Chewa Medical Botany

Although it rarely receives the attention it deserves from anthropologists, medical herbalism is perhaps the most widespread and most ancient form of therapy. This book describes in detail one such herbalist tradition, that found in southern Malawi. Offering the first comprehensive examination of medical herbalism in Malawi, this study combines

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Band XIb-2 ist - abgesehen von einigen Ergänzungen zu den Bänden XIa und XIb-1 - den Sekundärstoffen der Papilionoideae gewidmet und bietet einen wohl einmaligen Überblick über die Chemotaxonomie und die sekundären Inhaltsstoffe dieser Pflanzengruppe. Er ist daher von speziellem Interesse für Leguminosenforscher, Pharmakologen, Phytochemiker und Ethnobotaniker. Wie die Bände

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Researched under difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances during the Banda era, this book is a unique contribution to anthropological research in Malawi. Orginally published in 1976 this new edition has been throughly reworked and edited at a time when many of the domains described by Van Breugel were in a

This book documents the traditional knowledge and use of African medicinal plants. In total more than 5,400 plants from south of the Sahara to the Cape are listed and over 16,300 medicinal applications with plant part, details on method of preparation and dosage.

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