Preface
Table of Contents
Food, Medicine and Health
“Pharmafoods” and “Nutraceuticals”: paradigm shifts in biotherapeutics / Etkin, N.L. and Johns, T.
Plants as antidiarrhoeals in medicine and diet / Heinrich, M.
Ethnopharmacology and research on medicinal plants in China / Xiao, P.G. and Peng, Y.
Food taboos - a scientific reason? / Begossi, A.
Integration of traditional phytotherapy into general health care: an Ethiopian perspective / Dagne, E.
The integration of food and medicine in India / Handa, S.S.
Native North American food and medicinal plants: epistemological considerations / Moerman, D.E.
The commercial development of food plants used as medicines / Horrobin, D.F. and Lapinskas, P.
Cross-Cultural Plant Exchange
Introduction: the multi-disciplinary study of cross-cultural plant exchange / Harris, D.R.
Crop introductions and the development of secondary areas of diversity / Pickersgill, B.
The introduction of African millets to the Indian subcontinent / Possehl, G.L.
The diffusion of South and East Asian and of African crops into the belt of Mediterranean agriculture / Zohary, D.
The introduction of the Spanish plant complex into Florida, Mexico and the American Southwest / Ford, R.I.
The introduction of New World crops into Europe after 1492 / Hawkes, J.G.
Subsistence to commerce in Pacific agriculture: some four thousand years of plant exchange / Yen, D.E.
The use of alien plants in tropical South American folk medicines / Prance, G.T. and Plana, V.
Botany - What's in It for Drylands Development?
Botany, environment and planning in drylands / Whitcombe, R.P.
Valuing wild plants with economics and participatory methods: an overview of the Hidden Harvest methodology / Guijt, I.
Ecological needs of communities during and after dryland crises / Neefjes, K.
The Millennium Seed Bank, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the dry tropics / Smith, R.D., Linington, S.H. and Wechsberg, G.E.
Catching up with the humid forest zone: management challenges for dryland tree resources / Hall, J.B.
Problems and potential of Prosopis / Harris, P.J.C., Pasiecznik, N.M., Bradbury, M. and Ramirez, L.
The Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) - what’s in it for you? / Davis, S.D., Ambrose, J.R., Cook, F.E.M. and Prendergast, H.D.V.
Modern Treatments and Traditional Remedies
Quality control and efficacy evaluation of phytopharmaceuticals / Wichtl, M.
The Echinacea story - the scientific development of an herbal immunostimulant / Bauer, R.
Leads for antivirals from traditional medicines / Vlietinck, A.J. and Vanden Berghe, D.A.
Wound healing, traditional treatments and research policy / Bodeker, G. and Hughes, M.A.
Traditional remedies and diabetes treatment / Raman, A. and Skett, P.
Is there a psychopharmacological meaning for traditional tonics? / Elisabetsky, E. and Siqueira, I.R.
Modern treatments and traditional remedies - an epilogue / Phillipson, J.D.
