Williams, Cheryll. <br/><br/>
Medicinal plants in Australia.  Volume 3,  plants, potions and poisons / 
 Plants, potions and poisons 
Cheryll J. Williams. 
 - Dural, N.S.W. :  Rosenberg,  2012. 
 - 472 pages :  colour illustrations ;  25 cm. 
 - Medicinal plants in Australia .
 - Medicinal plants in Australia .
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Toxic plants - friends or foe? -- Tales of misadventure -- The art of detoxification: refining toxic plants -- Convolvulaceae : medicinal bush foods -- Culinary curiosities: psychotic potatoes and tasty tomatoes -- Aroids : irritant poisons -- Caustics and corrosives -- Foaming fish poisons -- Drugs from ichthyotoxins -- Poisonous Pteridophyta -- Cycads: prehistoric survivors -- Neurotoxins : plants of perilous consequence. 
<br/><br/> It has taken centuries to truly appreciate the healing attributes of much of the Australian flora. This book tells about the influential role the early discoveries had on medicinal practice in Australia, and the role these traditional medicines are fulfilling. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781921719165 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicinal plants--Australia.<br/>Materia medica, Vegetable--Australia.<br/>Poisonous plants--Australia.<br/>Indigenous knowledge - Botany.<br/>Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine.<br/>Plants.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615.321