Australian medicinal plants : a complete guide to identification and usage / E. V. Lassak & T. McCarthy.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Chatswood, N.S.W. : Reed New Holland, 2011Edition: 2nd edDescription: 303 p., [20] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 26 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781877069864 (pbk.)
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Indigenous knowledge - Botany
- Health - Treatments
- Phytotherapy -- methods -- Australia
- Plants, Medicinal -- Australia
- Plants, Medicinal
- Phytotherapy -- methods
- Materia medica, Vegetable -- Australia
- Medicinal plants -- Australia
- Materia medica, Vegetable
- Medicinal plants
- Materia medica, Vegetable -- Australia
- Medicinal plants -- Australia -- Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine
- Materia medica vegetable -- Australia
- Medicinal plants -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine
- Australia
- Australia
- Northern Territory
- Botany & plant science (Australia)
- Herbal medicine (Australia)
- Gardening (Australia)
- Australian
- 581.6340994 23
- QK98.7.A8 .L37 2011
- 2014 N-098
- QV 770 KA8
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | 581.6340994 AUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | RBG00021581 |
Previously published: 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and index.
1. Introductory notes and observations -- 2. Narcotics and painkillers -- 3. Headaches, colds and fevers -- 4. Tonics -- 5. Antiseptics and bactericides: treatment of wounds and inflammations -- 6. Skin disorders -- 7. Digestion and elimination -- 8. Miscellaneous cures -- 9. More myth than medicine? -- 10. The medicinal plant industry.
This book features a history of the Aboriginal use of native plants and explains how the first European settlers learnt of their medicinal value from the indigenous people. It contains detailed information on over 500 individual plants, their known pharmacological uses, where to find them, and how to prepare remedies. Species of plants are arranges according to their uses- for fevers, painkillers, antiseptics, digestive disorders etc.
Technical/Vocational/TAFE, Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
