Ethnobotany. The Renaissance of Traditional Herbal Medicine. 2010. 246 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Contents: Preface / Introduction / Use of herbal medicine against Helminths in livestock / Medicinal plants in an urban environment / Ethnobotany and the search for vanishing knowledge / Ethics in herbal medicine / Bioprospecting the African renaissance: the new value of Muthi / Medicinal plants used by the Yi ethnic group / Valorizing the 'Irulas' traditional knowledge of medicinal plants / Crop changes in mountain area of Eastern Liguria (Italy) / Extending the temporal context of ethnobotanical databases / Plants and traditional knowledge: an ethnobotanical investigation / Ethnobotany in the Nepal Himalaya / Living knowledge of the healing plants / Fauna used in popular medicine in Northeast Brazil / Cultural transmission of traditional knowledge / The use of magical plants / Ethnopharmacological survey of six medicinal plants / Bibliography / Index.