Eating and healing : traditional food as medicine /

Eating and healing : traditional food as medicine / [book] Andrea Pieroni, Lisa Leimar Price, editors - New York : Food industry and trade, c2006. - xviii, 406 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Edible wild plants as food and as medicine / Louis E. Grivetti -- Tibetan foods and medicines / Patrick L. Owen -- 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 -- Functional foods or food medicines? / Andrea Pieroni, Cassandra L. Quave -- Digestive beverages as a medicinal food in a cattle-farming community in northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria) / Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Elia San Miguel, Ram Morales -- "The forest and the seaweed" / Nancy J. Turner, Helen Clifton -- Medicinal herb quality in the United States / Craig A. Hassel ... [et al.] -- Balancing the system / Marsha B. Quinlan, Robert J. Quinlan -- Medicinal foods in Cuba / Gabriele Volpato, Daimy Godez -- Healthy fish / Alpina Begossi, Natalia Hanazaki, Rossano M. Ramos -- 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 -- Food medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department) / Ina Vandebroek, Sabino Sanca -- Gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal use in a Mapuche community of northwest Patagonia / Ana H. Ladio -- Dietary and medicinal use of traditional herbs among the Luo of western Kenya / Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa, Jens Aagaard-Hansen -- Ethnomycology in Africa with particular reference to the rain forest zone of south Cameroon / Thomas W. Kuyper -- Aspects of food medicine and ethnopharmacology in Morocco / Mohamed Eddouks

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Medicinal plants
Diet therapy
Ethnobotany
Traditional medicine
Wild plants, Edible--Therapeutic use
Diet therapy
Medicine, Traditional
Plants, Edible
Plants, Medicinal

RS164 / .E26