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Information on the botany, main traditional uses and active ingredients of the most commonly used and best known south african drug plants is presented in this photographic guide. She has dedicated her life to sharing her knowledge of medicinal and functional food plants, health and gardening through her books, radio and television appearances, lectures and demonstrations. The reader is taken on a journey through the use of medicinal plants for specific diseases. Medicinal plants of south africa benerik van wyk, bosch van oudtshoorn, nigel gericke snippet view 1997 benerik van wyk, bosch van oudtshoorn, nigel gericke snippet view 2009. Bosch van oudtshoorn is a retired professor of pharmacy and a pioneer researcher of the medicinal properties of plants. It includes clear photographs of each of the plants described and is refreshingly easy to use.
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Illness is regarded as having both natural and supernatural causes and. South african traditional healing and medicinal plants. Data on medicinal plants used to treat respiratory infections. Precis includes all indigenous and naturalised plants recorded from the same area as the flora of southern africanamibia, botswana, south africa, swaziland and lesotho. Beneric van wyk, bosch vanoudtshoorn, nigel gericke.
Medicinal plants of southern africa hardcover, 2nd ed. Medicinal plants of east africa is a revised edition of the book first published in 1976 on herbal remedies and he traditional medical practice of east africa. The book contains data of biologically active plants of africa, plant occurring compounds and synthesis pathways of secondary metabolites. Southafricantraditionalmedicinalplantsfromkwazulunatal download southafricantraditionalmedicinalplantsfromkwazulunatal ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format.
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Medicinal plants of south africa nhbs field guides. She has dedicated her life to sharing her knowledge of medicinal and functional food plants, health and gardening through her books, radio and television appearances. This is an alphabetical list of plants used in herbalism the ability to synthesize a wide variety of chemical compounds that are possibly used to perform important biological functions, and to defend against attack from predators such as insects, fungi and herbivorous mammals is called herbal medicine. Margaret roberts, south africa s herb doyenne and national treasure, received a laureate award from pretoria university for being one of the first organic farmers in south africa.
It is undeniable that medicinal plants have played, and continue to play, a major role in the lives of people worldwide. South african plants what kind of plants live in south africa. These extracts are used as inputs in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, insecticide and other chemical industries. Margaret roberts, south africas herb doyenne and national treasure, received a laureate award from pretoria university for being one of the first organic farmers in south africa. Nigel gericke this guide offers a description of to the most commonly used and best known south african plant medicines, including their botany, main traditional uses and active ingredients.
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