TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Cheryll
TI  - Medicinal plants in Australia
T2  - Medicinal plants in Australia
SN  - 9781921719165 (hbk.)
U1  - 615.321 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Dural, New South Wales
PB  - Rosenberg
KW  - Medicinal plants
KW  - Australia
KW  - Materia medica, Vegetable
KW  - Poisonous plants
KW  - Indigenous knowledge - Botany
KW  - aiatsiss
KW  - Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
KW  - Plants
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -