Medicine quest : in search of nature's healing secrets /
Plotkin, Mark J.
Medicine quest : in search of nature's healing secrets / Mark J. Plotkin ; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson]. - New York : Viking, 2000. - xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
Contents
Chapter one: Some poison for your pain?
Chapter two: The eternal quest
Chapter three: The fungus among us
Chapter four: Drugs from bugs
Chapter five: Hideous healers
Chapter six: Snakes in the caduceus
Chapter seven: Under the sea
Chapter eight: Plants of the apes
Chapter nine: Shamans
Afterword: Sugar sickness.
0670869376 (acidfree paper) 0140262105 9780140262100
Pharmacognosy--Popular works.
WB 130 P729m 2000
Medicine quest : in search of nature's healing secrets / Mark J. Plotkin ; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson]. - New York : Viking, 2000. - xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
Contents
Chapter one: Some poison for your pain?
Chapter two: The eternal quest
Chapter three: The fungus among us
Chapter four: Drugs from bugs
Chapter five: Hideous healers
Chapter six: Snakes in the caduceus
Chapter seven: Under the sea
Chapter eight: Plants of the apes
Chapter nine: Shamans
Afterword: Sugar sickness.
0670869376 (acidfree paper) 0140262105 9780140262100
Pharmacognosy--Popular works.
WB 130 P729m 2000