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Balick, Michael J., and Paul Alan Cox. Plants that heal. In
their Plants, people, and culture:
the science of ethnobotany. New York, Scientific American Library, c1996. p.
25-61. Shulz, Volker, Rudolf Hänsel, and Mark Blumenthal. Medicinal
plants, phytomedicines, and phytotherapy. In their Rational
phytotherapy: a physicians’ guide to herbal medicine. 4th ed. Berlin, New
York, Springer, 2001. p. 1-39. Skidmore-Roth, Linda. Introduction. In her Mosby’s handbook
of herbs & natural supplements. 2nd ed. St. Louis, Mosby, c2004.
p. ix-xxii.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on medicinal plants can be located, include the following:
Lewis, Walter Hepworth, and Memory P.F. Elvin-Lewis. Medical
botany: plants affecting human health. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, J.
Wiley, c2003. 812 p.
Ross, Ivan A. Medicinal plants of the world: chemical constituents, traditional
and modern medicinal uses. 2nd ed. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2003. 2 v. Stuart, David C. Dangerous garden: the quest for plants to
change our lives. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004. 208 p. Sumner, Judith. The natural history of medicinal plants. Portland,
OR, Timber Press, c2000. 235 p.
Includes bibliographies. Van Wyk, Ben-Erik, and Michael Wink. Medicinal plants of
the world: an illustrated scientific guide to important medicinal
plants
and their uses. Portland, OR, Timber Press, 2004. 480 p.
Drug Discovery Artuso, Anthony. Drugs of natural origin: economic and policy
aspects of discovery, development, and marketing. New York, Pharmaceutical
Products Press, c1997. 201 p.
The Discovery of natural products with therapeutic potential. Edited by Vincent
P. Gullo. Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, c1994. 461 p. Drug discovery from nature. Edited by S. Grabley and R. Thiericke.
Berlin, New York, Springer, c1999. 347 p. Ethnomedicine and drug discovery. Edited by Maurice M. Iwu and
Jackie C. Wooten. Amsterdam, New York, Elsevier, 2002. 330 p. (Advances
in phytomedicine series, v. 1)
Plotkin, Mark J. Medicine quest: in search of nature’s healing secrets. New York, Viking, 2000. 224 p.
Bibliography: p. 209-214.
The Role of natural products in drug discovery. J. Mulzer and R. Bohlmann,
editors. Berlin, New York, Springer, c2000. 348 p. (Ernst Schering Research
Foundation workshop, 32) Economic Botany Levetin, Estelle, and Karen McMahon. Plants and society. 3rd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill,
c2003. 508 p. Simpson, Beryl Brintnall, and Molly Connor Ogorzaly. Economic botany:
plants in our world. 3rd ed. Boston, McGraw-Hill, c2001. 529 p. Wickens, G. E. Economic botany: principles and practices. Dordrecht, Boston,
Kluwer Academic, c2001. 535 p. Ethnobotany, Indigenous and Traditional Medicines Cotton, C. M. Ethnobotany: principles and applications. Chichester, Eng., New York, John Wiley & Sons, c1996. 424 p.Bibliography: p. 375-399. GN476.73.C67 1996 <SciRR> Cunningham, Anthony B. Applied ethnobotany: people, wild plant use, and
conservation.
London, Earthscan, 2001. 300 p. Duffield, Graham. Intellectual property, biogenetic resources, and traditional
knowledge. London, Sterling VA, Earthscan, 2004. 258 p. Ethnobotany: a reader. Edited by Paul E. Minnis. Norman, University of Oklahoma
Press, c2000. 327 p. Ethnobotany: evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Evans Schultes
and Siri von Reis. Portland, OR, Dioscorides Press, c1995. 414 p. Khare, C. P. Encyclopedia of Indian medicinal plants: rational Western
therapy, Ayurvedic and other traditional usage, botany. Berlin, New York, Springer,
c2004. 523 p. Moerman, Daniel E. Native American ethnobotany. Portland, OR, Timber Press,
c1998. 927 p.
Neuwinger, Hans Dieter. African traditional medicine: a dictionary of plant
use and applications. Stuttgart, Medpharm Scientific Publishers, 2000. 589
p. Herbal Medicine The ABC clinical guide to herbs. Edited by Mark Blumenthal. Austin, TX, American Botanical Council, 2003. 480 p.Includes bibliographies. RM666.H33A175 2003 <SciRR> The Complete German Commission E monographs: therapeutic guide to herbal
medicines. Senior editor, Mark Blumenthal, with Werner R. Busse and others.
Austin, TX, American Botanical Council; Boston, Integrative Medicine Communications,
1998. 685 p. Herbal companion to AHFS DI. Bethesda, MD, American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists, c2000. 178 p. Herbal medicinals: a clinician’s guide. Edited by Lucinda G. Miller
and Wallace J. Murray. New York, Pharmaceutical Products Press, c1998. 382
p.
Libster, Martha. Delmar’s integrative herb guide for nurses. With a foreword
by James A. Duke. Albany, NY, Delmar/Thomson Learning, c2002. 931 p.
Rotblatt, Michael, and Irwin Ziment. Evidence-based herbal medicine. Philadelphia,
Hanley & Belfus, c2002. 464 p.
Includes bibliographies. Weiss, R. F., and Volker Fintelmann. Herbal medicine. 2nd ed. rev. Stuttgart,
New York, Thieme, 2000. 438 p.
Translation of Lehrbuch der phytotherapie. Medicinal Plants: Resources, Biodiversity and Conservation Breeding research on aromatic and medicinal plants. Christopher B. Johnson and Chlodwig Franz, editors. New York, Haworth Herbal Press, c2002. 435 p.Includes bibliographies. SB301.B7 2002 Lange, Dagmar. Europe’s medicinal and aromatic plants: their use, trade
and conservation. Cambridge, Eng., Traffic International, c1998. 77 p. Medicinal resources of the tropical forest: biodiversity and its importance
to human health. Edited by Michael J. Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky, and Sarah
A. Laird. New York, Columbia University Press, c1996. 440 p. Planting the future: saving our medicinal herbs. Edited by Rosemary Gladstar
and Pamela Hirsch. Rochester, VT, Healing Arts Press, c2000. 310 p. Plant resources of South-East Asia. Bogor, ESCAP CGPRT Centre, 1990-2002.
Roth, Ingrid, and Helga Lindorf. South American medicinal plants: botany,
remedial properties, and general use. Berlin, New York, Springer, c2002. 492 p. Schultes, Richard Evans, and Robert F. Rauffauf. The healing forest:
medicinal and toxic plants of the northwest Amazonia. Portland, OR, Dioscorides Press,
c1990. 484 p.
Tibetan medicinal plants. Edited by Christa Kletter and Monika Kriechbaum.
Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press/Medpharm, 2001. 383 p. Phytochemistry, Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceuticals Bioactive compounds from natural sources: isolation, characterisation, and biological properties. Edited by Corrado Tringali. London, New York, Taylor & Francis, 2001. 693 p.Includes bibliographies. RS160.B55 2001 <SciRR> Biologically active natural products: pharmaceuticals. Edited by Stephen
J. Cutler and Horace G. Cutler. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2000. 277 p. Dewick, Paul M. Medicinal natural products: a biosynthetic approach. 2nd
ed. Chichester, Eng., New York, Wiley, c2002. 507 p. Ebadi, Manuchair S. Pharmacodynamic basis of herbal medicine. Boca Raton,
FL, CRC Press, c2002. 726 p. Evans, William Charles. Trease and Evans’ pharmacognosy. 15th rev.
ed. Edinburgh, New York, W. B. Saunders, 2002. 585 p. Huang, K. C. The pharmacology of Chinese herbs. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL, CRC
Press, c1999. 512 p. Li, Thomas S. C. Chinese and related North American herbs: phtyopharmacology
and therapeutic values. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2002. 598 p. Li, Thomas S. C. Medicinal plants: culture, utilization, and phytopharmacology.
Lancaster, PA, Technomic Pub. Co., 2000. 517 p.
Natural medicines comprehensive database. 1999- By the editors of Pharmacist’s
letter, Prescriber’s letter. Stockton, CA, Therapeutic Research Faculty.
Polya, Gideon Maxwell. Biochemical targets of plant bioactive compounds:
a pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects.
London, New York, Taylor & Francis, 2003. 847 p. Williamson, Elizabeth M., D. T. Okpako, and Fred J. Evans. Selection,
preparation, and pharmacological evaluation of plant material. Chichester, Eng., New York,
J. Wiley & Sons, c1996. 228 p. Phytocosmetics, Botanicals, Teas and Supplements A-Z guide to drug-herb-vitamin interactions: how to improve your health
and avoid problems when using common medications and natural supplements together.
Edited by Schuyler W. Lininger, and others. Rocklin, CA, Prima Health, 1999.
436 p. D’Amelio, Frank S. Botanicals: a phytocosmetic desk reference. Boca
Raton, FL, CRC Press, c1999. 361 p. Fugh-Berman, Adriane. The 5-minute herb & dietary supplement consult. Philadelphia, Lippincott & Williams, c2003. 475 p. Herbs, botanicals & teas. Edited by G. Mazza and B. D. Oomah. Lancaster,
PA, Technomic Publishing Co., Inc., 2000. 416 p. Wulff-Tilford, Mary, and Gregory L. Tilford. All you ever wanted to know
about herbs for pets. Irvine, CA, BowTie Press, 1999. 416 p. Selected Medical Plants Cannabis and cannabinoids: pharmacology, toxicology, and therapeutic potential. Edited by Franjo Grotenhermen and Ethan Russo. New York, Haworth Integrative Healing Press, c2002. 439 p.Includes bibliographies. RM666.C266C667 2002 Hypericum: the genus Hypericum. Edited by E. Ernst. London, New York, Taylor & Francis,
2003. 241 p. Plants that fight cancer. Edited by Spiridon E. Kintzios and Maria G. Baberaki.
Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2004. 296 p. Poppy: the genus Papaver. Edited by Jeno Bernáth. Amsterdam, Harwood
Academic Publishers, c1998. 352 p. Medicinal and aromatic plants--industrial
profiles, 1027-4502, v. 3. WHOmonographs on selected medicinal plants. Geneva, World Health Organization,
1999-2002. 2 v.
Capasso, Francesco, and others. Phytotherapy: a quick reference
to herbal medicine. Berlin, New York, Springer, c2003. 424 p. Castner, James L., S. Lee Timme, and James A. Duke. A field
guide to medicinal and useful plants of the Upper Amazon. Gainesville,
FL, Feline Press, c1998. 154 p. Chevallier, Andrew. Natural health encyclopedia of herbal
medicine. 2nd American ed. New York, DK Pub. Inc., c2000. 336 p. Duke, James A., and others. Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2nd
ed. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2002. 870 p. Foster, Steven, and James A. Duke. A field guide to medicinal
plants and herbs of eastern and central North America. 2nd ed.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. 411 p.
Foster, Steven, and Christopher Hobbs. A field guide to Western medicinal plants
and herbs. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. 442 p.
Bibliography: p. 398-402. Johnson, Timothy. CRC ethnobotany desk reference. Boca Raton,
FL, CRC Press, c1999. 1213 p.
Peirce, Andrea. The American Pharmaceutical Association practical guide to
natural medicines. New York, Morrow, c1999. 728 p. Phytochemical dictionary: a handbook of bioactive compounds from
plants. 2nd ed. Edited by Jeffrey B. Harborne, Herbert Baxter,
and Gerard P. Moss. London, Philadelphia, Taylor & Francis,
c1999. Phytotherapy: a quick reference to herbal medicine. Edited by
Francesco Capasso and others. Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag,
c2003. 424 p. Professional’s handbook of complementary & alternative
medicines. c1999- Springhouse, PA, Springhouse Corporation. Torkelson, Anthony R. The cross name index to medicinal plants.
Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c1996-c1999. 4 v.
International Congress of Ethnobiology (7th, Athens, GA, 2000).
Ethnobiology and biocultural diversity: proceedings of the
Seventh International Congress of Ethnobiology. John R. Stepp and others,
editors. Athens, GA, International Society of Ethnobiology, distributed
by the University of Georgia Press, c2002. 720 p. Joint Conference of the Society for Economic Botany and the International
Society for Ethnopharmacology (London, England, 1996). Plants
for food and medicine: proceedings of the joint conference of the
Society
for Economic Botany and the International Society for Ethnopharmacology,
London, 1-6 July 1996. N. L. Etkin, and others, editors. Kew, Eng.,
Royal Botanic Gardens, 1998. 438 p. Phytomedicines of Europe: chemistry and biological activity.
Edited by Larry D. Lawson and Rudolf Bauer. Washington, American
Chemical Society, 1998. 324 p. Proceedings of the International Expert Meeting organized by
the Forest Products Division, FAO Forestry Department, and the
FAO Regional Office for the Near East (Cairo, Egypt, May 19-21,
1997). Medicinal, culinary and aromatic plants in the Near
East.
Cairo, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
1999. World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Human Welfare
(2nd, Mendoza, Argentina, 1997). Second World Congress on Medicinal
and Aromatic Plants for Human Welfare: WOCMAP-2: agricultural production,
post-harvest techniques, biotechnology. Mendoza, Argentina, 10-15
Nov. 1997. G. Giberti, and others, editors. International Council
for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ICMAP), International Society
for Horticultural Science (ISHS), Sociedad Argentina para la Investigación
de Productos Aromáticos (SAIPA), organizers. Wageningen,
Netherlands, Wageningen Academic Press, 1999. 408 p. (Acta horticulturae,
no. 502)
Chandrasekhara Behr, Diji. Economic, institutional, and social
learning dimensions of sustainable medicinal plant production in
Kerala, India. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2004. 281
p. Hamby, Erin Brooke. The roots of healing: archaeological
and historical investigations of African-American herbal medicine.
Ann Arbor, MI, UMI Microfilms, 2004. 177 p. Mouhajir, Fatima. Medicinal plants used by Berber and Arab
peoples of Morocco: ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry. Ann Arbor, MI,
University Microfilms, 2002. 228 p. Ososki, Andreana L. Ethnobotany of rural and urban Dominican
Republic: medicinal plants, women, and health. Ann Arbor, MI, University
Microfilms, 2004. 470 p.
Abstracting and Indexing Services that index relevant journal articles and other types of literature are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are “Medicinal Plants,” “Ethnobotany,” “Biodiversity,” or more specific headings, depending upon the topic of interest. Many of the titles may now be available in electronic format. Consult a reference librarian for the location and format of abstracting and indexing services in the Science Reading Room
Journals that often contain relevant articles on medicinal plants include the following:
Bent, Stephen, and Richard Ko. Commonly used herbal remedies in the
United States: a review. American journal of medicine, v. 116, Apr.1,
2004: 478-485. Boyum, F. F., and others. Composition and anti-plasmodial activities
of essential oils from some Cameroonian medicinal plants. Phytochemistry,
v. 64, Dec. 2003:1269-1275. Coley, Phyllis D. Using ecological criteria to design plant collection
strategies for drug discovery. Frontiers in ecology and the
environment,
v. 1, Oct. 2003: 421-428. Deng, Yu-Cheng, and others. Studies on the cultivation and uses
of evening primrose (Oenothera spp.) in China. Economic botany,
v. 55, Jan./Mar. 2001: 83-92.
Flannery, Michael A. From Rudbeckia to Echinacea: the emergence of the purple
cone-flower in modern therapeutics. Pharmacy in history, v. 41, no. 2, 1999:
52-59. Ghazanfar, S. A. Applied ethnobotany: people, wild plant use
and conservation. Oryx, v. 35, July 2001: 269-270. Goeschi, Timo. Stakes in the evolutionary race: the economic
value of plants for medicinal applications. Journal of herbs,
spices & medicinal
plants, v. 9, no. 4, 2002: 373-388. Jones, K. Review of sangre de drago (Croton lechleri), a South
American tree sap in the treatment of diarrhea inflammation, insect
bites, viral infections, and wounds: traditional uses to clinical
research. Journal of alternative and complementary medicine, v.
9, Dec. 2003: 877-896. Lewis, Walter H. Pharmaceutical discoveries based on ethnomedicinal
plants: 1985 to 2000 and beyond. Economic botany, v. 57, spring
2003: 126-134. Lin, W. Y., and others. Anti-platelet aggregation and chemical
constituents from the rhizome of Gynura japonica. Planta medica,
v. 69, Aug. 2003: 757-764. Morris, Charles A. Internet marketing of herbal products. JAMA, v. 290, Sept. 17, 2003: 1505-1509. Nelson, R. FDA issues alert on ephedra supplements in the USA.
Lancet, v. 363, Jan. 10, 2004: 135. Perez-Giraldo, C., and others. Invitro activity of allicin against
Staphylococcus epidermis and influence of subinhibitory concentrations
on biofilm formation. Journal of applied microbiology, v. 95, Oct.
2003: 709-711.
Sarker, S. D., and L. Nahar. Natural medicine: the genus Angelica. Current
medicinal chemistry, v. 11, June 2004: 1479-1501.
Seth, S. D., and Bhawana Sharma. Medicinal plants in India. The Indian
journal of medical research, v. 120, July 2004: 9-12. Shanley, Patricia, and Leda Luz. The impacts of forest degradation
on medicinal plant use and implications for health care in Eastern
Amazonia. BioScience, v. 53, June 2003: 573-585. Shao, Bao-Mel, and others. A study of the immune receptors for
polysaccharides from the roots of Astragalus membranaceus, a Chinese
medicinal herb. Biochemical and biophysical research communications,
v. 329, Aug. 6, 2004: 1103-1111. Update on black cohosh for hot flashes. Harvard women’s
health watch, v. 11, Jan. 2004: 2-3. Vandebroek, Ina, and others. A comparison of traditional healers’ medicinal
plant knowledge in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon. Social science & medicine,
v. 59, Aug. 2004: 837-849. Wellbery, Caroline. Echinacea for respiratory infections in children.
American family physician, v. 70, July 1, 2004: 175.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Akpaja, Emmanuel O., and others. Ethnomycology and usage of edible and medicinal mushrooms among the Igbo people of Nigeria. International journal of medicinal mushrooms, v. 5, issue 3, 2003: 313-320. Altshul, Sara. Artichoke quells indigestion. Prevention, v. 56, June 2004: 113. Bailey, David C., and George C. Dresser. Natural products and
adverse drug interactions. Canadian Medical Association journal,
v. 170, May 11, 2004: 1531-1532. Hamilton, Alan C. Medicinal plants, conservation and livelihoods. Biodiversity and conservation, v. 13, July 2004: 1477-1517. Jere-Malanda, Regina. Biopiracy: Neem, the wonder tree. New African, no. 424, Dec. 2003: 18. Khan, T. J., Anil K. Dular, and Deepika M. Solomon. Biodiversity conservation in the Thar Desert, with emphasis on endemic and medicinal plants. The Environmentalist, v. 23, June 2003: 137-144. Kilham, Chris. The herbal future. Nutraceuticals world, v. 20, July/Aug. 2004: 68-72. Njoroge, N., and others. Utilisation of weed species as sources
of traditional medicines in Kenya. Lyonia, v. 7, no. 2, 2004: 67-84. Northridge, Mary E., and Richard Mack. Integrating ethnomedicine into public health. American journal of public health, v. 92, Oct. 2002: 1561. Yvinskas, Katherine. Conservation of native medicinal plants. The Herbarist, no. 66, 2000: 52-55.
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