Herbal medicine in Yemen : traditional knowledge and practice, and their value for today's world / / edited by Ingrid Hehmeyer, Hanne Schönig ; with the collaboration of Anne Regourd.
Traditional medical lore along with its practitioners – druggists and healers – survives in Yemen today. Owing to the country's rich biodiversity, the main body of the medicines is plant-based. This book features fourteen scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East (three of them fr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic history and civilization,
v. 96 Islamic History and Civilization 96. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Sheikh A. Bawazir
- Introduction / Hanne Schönig and Ingrid Hehmeyer
- The Validity of Traditional Medicine as an Effective Tool in Issues of Human Health / Ingrid Hehmeyer
- Eastern Mediterranean Pharmacology and India Trade as a Background for Yemeni Medieval Medicinal Plants / Efraim Lev
- Magic and Medicine in a Thirteenth-century Treatise on the Science of the Stars / Petra G. Schmidl
- Qāt and Traditional Healing in Yemen / Daniel Martin Varisco
- The Aloe and the Frankincense Tree in Southern Arabia: Different Approaches to Their Use / Miranda Morris
- Healing through Medicinal Plants: Old Yemenite Therapeutic Traditions and Their Application in Jerusalem Today / Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
- Honey, Coffee, and Tea in Cultural Practices of Hadramawt / Mikhail Rodionov
- From Medicinal Plants of Yemen to Therapeutic Herbal Drugs / Jacques Fleurentin
- The Miraculous Plant halqa (Cyphostemma digitatum): From Grandmother’s Kitchen in Yemen’s South-western Highlands to Modern Medicinal and Culinary Applications / Mohammed Al-Duais and Gottfried Jetschke
- A Pharmacist’s View of the Potential Value to Modern Medicine of Plants and Fungi Used by Traditional Medicine in Yemen / Ulrike Lindequist
- Health Issues in the Mountains of Yemen: Healing Practices as Part of Farmers’ Traditional Knowledge / Amin Al-Hakimi , Anhar Ya’ni and Frédéric Pelat
- Indices / Ingrid Hehmeyer and Hanne Schönig.