Product Description

Medicinal Plants of the World is a comprehensive and scientifically accurate guide to the best-known and most important medicinal plants. The book includes descriptions of more than 300 medicinal plants and their close relatives. Each entry gives a short summary with a description of the plant, the geographical origin, therapeutic category, historical and modern uses, active ingredients, and pharmacological effects. More than 500 full-color photographs assist in the identification of the plants. It is an essential reference guide for health care professionals doctors, nurses, and especially pharmacists or anyone with an interest in medicinal plants and their uses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271425 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.29" h x 6.86" w x 9.76" l, 2.88 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

Review
This stunning new book is a user-friendly guide to 320 plants. J. S. Whelan, Choice, September 2004 (Choice )

An in-depth, scientifically accurate, superbly presented, seminal survey and guide to the best-known medicinal plants ... a reference that health care professionals will relish and refer to time and time again. Bookwatch, July 2004 (Bookwatch )

Medicinal Plants of the World is a scientifically accurate guide to the best-known and most important medicinal plants of special commercial or historical interest which is a rapidly expanding field. Joanne S. Carpender, National Gardener, June 2004 (National Gardener )

About the Author
Ben-Erik van Wyk is a professor of botany at the Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author and co-author of the successful books Medicinal Plants of the World, Food Plants of the World, and Mind-Altering and Poisonous Plants of the World. His research interest is in systematic botany and plant utilization.

Michael Wink is a professor of pharmaceutical biology and a director of the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He is an authority on secondary metabolites of plants and their pharmacological effects.