Uses of Medicinal Plants in Guyana
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Page : 94 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Herbs
ISBN : 9789769533103
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Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Herbs
ISBN : 9789769533103
Author : Deborah A. Lachman-White
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0850923875
This book describes and illustrates plants used medicinally in coastal Guyana. It includes entries for 173 native and naturalised Guyanese plants, as well as a few cultivated species. Of these, 148 are illustrated by line drawings, the majority of which have been created by local artists. The methods used in compiling the data included interviews, plant collection and identification, literature search for chemical and pharmacological information and some basic screening carried out locally.
Author : Kazembe Olugbala Bediako
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
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ISBN : 9780984571536
Leaves of Life, Volume1: Single Plants, the author of the Behutet series and native of Guyana, posits the view that herbal medicine is becoming more popular in contemporary life and that there is a herbal remedy for any ailment. Scientists have come to recognize the capacity of the rainforest to treat or cure ailments and diseases that plague modern life, such as AIDS, cancers, venereal diseases, heart problems, diabetes, Alzheimer's, arthritis, infertility, leukemia, multiple sclerosis and more. This priceless resource of over one hundred and twenty single Plants, thought to be lost over the generations, will ever be at your finger tips. Leaves of Life, Volume1: Single Plants, cites the enormous importance of the natural world of plants at a time when plant resources are decreasing at a rapid rate. No other time in history have human beings placed such importance on the natural world of plants. Guyana, which lies at the point where the Caribbean meets South America on its North Atlantic seaboard, consists of 80% rainforest and is home to one of the richest regions of the world with expanses of untouched neotropical forests and different species of plants found nowhere else on earth. Leaves of Life, Volume1: Single Plants reveals the true secrets of its tropical vegetation which was traditionally confined to the "Bush Men," the individuals who make their living off the local plant lore. These secrets have eluded European explorers like Walter Raleigh, the first European to record the existence of curare, a paralytic, plant-derived poison used in fishing and hunting in Guyana. Curare causes death by asphyxiation through the loss of control of muscles essential in respiration and is used in modern medicine as a muscle relaxant for shock treatment of mental illness, and as an adjunct to anaesthesia in heart surgery.
Author : Deborah A. Lachman-White
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1992
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ISBN : 9781848594944
Author : Deborah A. Lachman-White
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Medicinal plants
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Author : Kazembe O Bediako
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781532318108
Author : Kazembe Bediako
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2020-10-16
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ISBN : 9780984571543
In Leaves of Life, Volume2: Single Plants, the author of the Behutet series and native of Guyana, suggests t hat the medicinal uses of plants are becoming more popular in contemporary life and that there is an herbal remedy for any ailment. Scientists recognize the infinite potential of rainforest vegetation to prevent, treat or cure ailments and diseases that plague modern life, such as AIDS, Alzheimer's, arthritis, cancers, diabetes, heart problems, infertility, leukemia, multiple sclerosis venereal diseases, and more. Leaves of Life is a priceless resource of information on over one hundred single plants, believed to have been lost over generations. With this reference manual of plants from Guyana, organized into diagnostic categories, you can use this information to improve the quality of your life and to spread the knowledge of the medicinal and healing properties of single plants.
Author : Robert A. DeFilipps
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
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Author : Erwin R.A. van den Berg
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Promila Kapoor
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Botany, Medical
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