Book ID: 83800
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
Gurib Fakim, Ameenah, Quatre Bornes and Thomas Brendler
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                 Medicinal Plants of Indian Ocean Islands. Madagascar, Comores, Seychelles and Mascarenes. 2004 (correctly: 2003). 192 col. photographs. VIII, 567 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    Evaluates 350 medicinal plants of the main Indian Ocean Islands. Datagiven for each plant comprise botanical description, distribution,ecology, chemistry of active compounds, pharmacological studies, usein the traditional medicine, full colour photographs and chemicalstructures. Covers traditional medicine as well as potentials forthe development of new drugs.