TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lassak,E.V.
AU  - McCarthy,Tara
TI  - Australian medicinal plants: a complete guide to identification and usage 
SN  - 9781877069864 (pbk.)
AV  - QK98.7.A8 .L37 2011
U1  - 581.6340994 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chatswood, N.S.W.
PB  - Reed New Holland
KW  - Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
KW  - aiatsiss
KW  - Indigenous knowledge - Botany
KW  - Health - Treatments
KW  - Phytotherapy
KW  - methods
KW  - Australia
KW  - Plants, Medicinal
KW  - Materia medica, Vegetable
KW  - Medicinal plants
KW  - fast
KW  - Northern Territory
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Materia medica vegetable
KW  - Botany & plant science (Australia)
KW  - Herbal medicine (Australia)
KW  - Gardening (Australia)
KW  - Australian
N1  - 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; Technical/Vocational/TAFE, Tertiary/Undergraduate, General
N2  - 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
ER  -