Editorial Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Tables xi
5. Introduction. Plants in Medical Practice and Common Sense: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropol 1
6. HISTORY
7. Editorial Introduction 49
8. 1. Non-Native Plants and Their Medicinal Uses 53
9. 2. Qing hao (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese Materia Medica 83
10. ANTHROPOLOGY
11. Editorial Introduction 132
12. 3. Shamanic Plants and Gender in the Healing Forest 135
13. 4. Persons, Plants and Relations: Treating Childhood Illness in a Western Kenyan Village 179
14. PLANT PORTRAITS
15. Editorial Introduction 225
16. 5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and Dementia 229
17. 6. Medicinal, Stimulant and Ritual Plant Use: an Ethnobotany of Caffeine-Containing Plants 262
18. Notes on Contributors 303
19. Index 307