Nature's medicine plants that heal - Swerdlow, Joel L. (Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 2000)
Machine generated contents note: Preface: A Plant That Cures 6 -- Introduction: Chemicals From Plants 8 -- ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS TO THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE -- 1 Herbal Medicine of India and China 12 -- 2 Plants Begin to Serve the Four Humors 50 -- 3 Learning From the New World 68 -- THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE TO THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY -- 4 Modern Science -- Embraces Medicinal Plants 110 -- 5 Medicine Changes: -- Late 19th to Early 20th Century 158 -- 6 The 20th Century: -- A Limited Role for Plants 192 -- SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PLANT-BASED MEDICINE -- 7 Modern Medicine Keeps -- Trying to Use Plants 242 -- 8 Can Herbs Heal You? 288.
Keywords: Materia medica, Vegetable; Medicinal plants; Pharmacognosy