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Eating and healing: traditional food as medicine / edited by Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimar Price.

Contributor(s): Pieroni, Andrea | Price, Lisa Leimar
Language: English Publisher: New York: London : Oxford : Food Products Press, The Haworth Press, 2006.Description: xviii, 406 p. : ill. map, port. ; 22cm.ISBN: 1560229837 (pbk); 9781560229834 (pbk)
Contents:
Edible wild plants as food and as medicine: reflections on thirty years of fieldwork / Louis E. Grivetti; Tibetan foods and medicines: antioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology / Patrick L. Owen; Wild food plants in farming environments with special reference to northeast Thailand: food as functional and medicinal, and the social roles of women / Lisa Leimar Price; Functional foods or food medicines?: on the consumption of wild plants among Albanians and southern Italians in Lucania / Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave; Digestive beverages as a medicinal food in a cattle-farming community in northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria) / Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Elia San Miguel and Ramón Morales; "The forest and the seaweed": Gitga'at seaweed, traditional ecological knowledge, and community survival / Nancy J. Turner and Helen Clifton; Medicinal herb quality in the United States: bridging perspectives with Chinese medical theory / Craig A. Hassel ... [et al.]; Balancing the system: humoral medicine and food in the commonwealth of Dominica / Marsha B. Quinlan and Robert J. Quinlan; Medicinal foods in Cuba: promoting health in the household / Gabriele Volpato and Daimy Godínez; Healthy fish: medicinal and recommended species in the Amazon and the Atlantic forest coast (Brazil) / Alpina Begossi, Natalia Hanazaki and Rossano M. Ramos; Edible and healing plants in the ethnobotany of native inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic forest areas of Brazil / Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni and Alpina Begossi; Food medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba department) / Ina Vandebroek and Sabino Sanca; Gathering of wild plants foods with medicinal use in a Mapuche community of northwest Patagonia / Ana H. Ladio; Dietary and medicinal use of traditional herbs among the Luo of western Kenya / Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa and Jens Aagaard-Hansen; Ethnomycology in Africa, with particular reference to the rain forest zone of south Cameroon / Thomas W. Kuyper / Aspects of food medicine and ethnopharmacology in Morocco / Mohamed Eddouks
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Edible wild plants as food and as medicine: reflections on thirty years of fieldwork / Louis E. Grivetti; Tibetan foods and medicines: antioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology / Patrick L. Owen; Wild food plants in farming environments with special reference to northeast Thailand: food as functional and medicinal, and the social roles of women / Lisa Leimar Price; Functional foods or food medicines?: on the consumption of wild plants among Albanians and southern Italians in Lucania / Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave; Digestive beverages as a medicinal food in a cattle-farming community in northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria) / Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Elia San Miguel and Ramón Morales; "The forest and the seaweed": Gitga'at seaweed, traditional ecological knowledge, and community survival / Nancy J. Turner and Helen Clifton; Medicinal herb quality in the United States: bridging perspectives with Chinese medical theory / Craig A. Hassel ... [et al.]; Balancing the system: humoral medicine and food in the commonwealth of Dominica / Marsha B. Quinlan and Robert J. Quinlan; Medicinal foods in Cuba: promoting health in the household / Gabriele Volpato and Daimy Godínez; Healthy fish: medicinal and recommended species in the Amazon and the Atlantic forest coast (Brazil) / Alpina Begossi, Natalia Hanazaki and Rossano M. Ramos; Edible and healing plants in the ethnobotany of native inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic forest areas of Brazil / Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni and Alpina Begossi; Food medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba department) / Ina Vandebroek and Sabino Sanca; Gathering of wild plants foods with medicinal use in a Mapuche community of northwest Patagonia / Ana H. Ladio; Dietary and medicinal use of traditional herbs among the Luo of western Kenya / Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa and Jens Aagaard-Hansen; Ethnomycology in Africa, with particular reference to the rain forest zone of south Cameroon / Thomas W. Kuyper / Aspects of food medicine and ethnopharmacology in Morocco / Mohamed Eddouks

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