TY - BOOK ID - 1028953 TI - South American medicinal plants : botany, remedial properties and general use AU - Roth, Ingrid AU - Lindorf, Helga PY - 2002 SN - 3540419292 3642075444 3662046989 9783540419297 PB - Berlin : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Pharmacognosy KW - Phytochemistry. Phytobiochemistry KW - Latin America KW - Medicinal plants KW - ETH Ethnobotany & Economic botany KW - South America KW - anatomy KW - ethnobotany KW - history of commodities KW - medicinal plants KW - phytochemistry KW - Pharmacy. KW - Pharmacology. KW - Plant science. KW - Botany. KW - Acupuncture. KW - Pharmacology/Toxicology. KW - Plant Sciences. KW - Counterirritation KW - Energy medicine KW - Botanical science KW - Phytobiology KW - Phytography KW - Phytology KW - Plant biology KW - Plant science KW - Biology KW - Natural history KW - Plants KW - Drug effects KW - Medical pharmacology KW - Medical sciences KW - Chemicals KW - Chemotherapy KW - Drugs KW - Pharmacy KW - Chemistry KW - Medicine KW - Materia medica KW - Pharmacology KW - Physiological effect KW - Floristic botany KW - Medicinal plants - South America - Encyclopedias. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1028953 AB - Books dealing with medicinal herbs have been forests by man. Furthermore, the knowledge of use­ ful and medicinal plants is lost as soon as tradition much in demand in the last decade, since interest in the use of 'healing plants' instead of chemistry vanishes through the import of new products from wrapped up in the form of pills has gradually in­ industrialized countries. Already in 1926, PITTIER creased. Interest in natural methods of healing by regreted that the use as well as the production of medicinal plants advanced with the ecological con­ indigenous medicinal-herbal products, foodstuffs science of man. European officinal plants are well and other local industrial vegetable products, such known and have already been applied for hundreds as special oils, waxes, fibers, tannic substances, cork of years or even more. However, as the tropical etc. , diminished alarmingly, as importation of arti­ forests attracted more attention, the great wealth of ficial or foreign products from the USA and Europe increased. This decrease in natural indigenous pro­ useful plants stored in tropical regions became ob­ vious. India is probably a leading country in the duction continues up to the present day such that knowledge of indigenous tropical medicinal plants, also the knowledge of these useful plants is being some of which are also known or are even common gradually forgotten. As local industries disap­ in Europe. Further useful and medicinal plants peared, unemployment consequently increased. ER -