New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

About the author

Siri von Reis is Honorary Curator of Ethnobotany at The New York Botanical Garden, Honorary Research Associate in Ethnopharmacology at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, and a Fellow of The Linnean Society of LondonFrank J. Lipp, Jr., recently completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research.

Summary

This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists.

Product details

• Authors: Frank J. Lipp, Lipp Frank J., Frank J. Lipp Jr, Siri Von Reis, Siri von Reis
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.1982
• EAN: 9780674617650
• ISBN: 978-0-674-61765-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Weight: 726 g
• Illustrations: 1Illustrations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, Botany, Pharmacology, Botany & plant sciences, Commercial horticulture, Horticulture, Botany and plant sciences