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Bitter roots : the search for healing plants in Africa / Abena Dove Osseo-Asare.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.Description: vii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226086026 (paperback : alk. paper)
  • 022608602X (paperback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.3/21  23
Contents:
Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals -- Take Madagascar peri winkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy -- Take grains of paradis e for love -- Take arrow poisons for the heart -- Take bitter roots for malaria -- Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger -- Conclusion: Toward biopr osperity.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access Makerere Inst of Social Research - MISR MISR Library - Open Shelves Non-fiction 615.321 OSS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 001351004
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access Makerere Inst of Social Research - MISR MISR Library - Open Shelves Non-fiction 615.321 OSS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 001268790

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-288) and index.

Introduction: From plants to pharmaceuticals -- Take Madagascar peri winkle for leukemia and pennywort for leprosy -- Take grains of paradis e for love -- Take arrow poisons for the heart -- Take bitter roots for malaria -- Take Kalahari hoodia for hunger -- Conclusion: Toward biopr osperity.

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