Thai Medicinal Plants. Recommended for Primary Health Care System. 1992. numerous col. photos. IX,402 p. 4to. Cloth.

This book has been designed to serve as a reference for physicians,pharmacists and other health personnel who are involved in primaryhealth care system in Thailand. This is the first attempt to integratetraditional and modern systems of medicine in order to implement themproperly. There are 60 plants listed in this book with ethnomedical,botanical, chemical and biological information. This information willassure the physicians that the claimed efficacies have beenpharmacologically confirmed before implementing in primary health caresystem. This book not only supports the implementation, it also providesa basis for further researches. It should be remarked here that theplants listed in this book are commonly found in the tropical region.Therefore the implementation can be extended to other countries in thesame climatic zone as Thailand.