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Medicinal plants in Australia. Volume 3, plants, potions and poisons / Cheryll J. Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medicinal plants in AustraliaPublisher: Dural, New South Wales : Rosenberg, 2012Description: 472 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781921719165 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Plants, potions and poisons
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.321 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book State Botanical Collection RBG 615.321 MED V.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available RBG00026202
Book State Botanical Collection Reference Collection REF 615.321 MED V.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan RBGM00006811

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.

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.

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