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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Tilte; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction; Asia; Europe; North America; The Caribbean; South America; Africa; Chapter 1. Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork; Introduction; Genesis; Three Decades of Ethnobotanical Research; Reflections and Potential Research Areas; Coda; Chapter 2. Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology; Introduction; Adaptations to Altitude |
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Oxidative Stress and AntioxidantsTibetan High-Altitude Food Systems; Tibetan Medicine; Summary; Chapter 3. Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Functional and Medicinal, and the Social Roles of Women; Introduction; Wild Plant Foods in the Farming Environment; Women's Roles, Women's Work, and Women's Knowledge; Consumption and Nutrition; Overlaps: Medicinal and Functional Food; Medicinal and Functional Food: Wild Plants of Northeast Thailand; Gathered Food Plants of Northeast Thailand with Medicinal Value |
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Investigations of Wild Plant Foods As Functional/Medicinal Foods in ThailandMultiple-Use Value, Rarity, and Privatization; Conclusions; Chapter 4. Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania; Introduction; Ethnographic Background; Field Methods; Wild Food and Medicinal Plants in Lucania; Pharmacology of Wild Functional Foods Consumed in Southern Italy; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Digestive Beverages As a Medicinal Food in a Cattle-Farming Community in Northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria); Introduction |
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Changes in Food and Health Habits and ConditionsMedicinal Food: Digestive Beverages; Conclusions; Chapter 6. "The Forest and the Seaweed": Gitga'at Seaweed, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Community Survival; Introduction; Seaweed Use Worldwide; Gitga'at Seaweed Use; The Forest and the Seaweed; Back Home in Hartley Bay; Conclusion; Chapter 7. Medicinal Herb Quality in the United States: Bridging Perspectives with Chinese Medical Theory; Context from a Biomedical Perspective; Context from a Chinese Medical Theory Perspective; Dilemma of "Integrating" Two Divergent Epistemologies |
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Founding a Medicinal Herb NetworkChapter 8. Balancing the System: Humoral Medicine and Food in the Commonwealth of Dominica; Introduction; Setting; Methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusion; Chapter 9. Medicinal Foods in Cuba: Promoting Health in the Household; Introduction; Results and Discussion; Conclusions; Chapter 10. Healthy Fish: Medicinal and Recommended Species in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest Coast (Brazil); Introduction; Methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusions |
| Summary |
"Discover neglected wild food sourcesthat can also be used as medicine!The long-standing notion of food as medicine, medicine as food, can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive case studies, provides a clear, authoritative look at the many neglected food sources still being used around the world today. This book bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology, and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and ethnomedicine to provide a valuable multidisciplinary resource for education and instruction. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine presents respected researchers in-depth case studies on foods different cultures use as medicines and as remedies for nutritional deficiencies in diet. Comparisons of living conditions in different geographic areas as well as differences in diet and medicines are thoroughly discussed and empirically evaluated to provide scientific evidence of the many uses of these traditional foods as medicine and as functional foods. The case studies focus on the uses of plants, seaweed, mushrooms, and fish within their cultural contexts while showing the dietary and medical importance of these foods. The book provides comprehensive tables, extensive references, useful photographs, and helpful illustrations to provide clear scientific support as well as opportunities for further thought and study. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine explores the ethnobiology of: Tibetantioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology Northeast Thailandwild food plant gathering Southern Italythe consumption of wild plants by Albanians and Italians Northern Spainmedicinal digestive beverages United Statesmedicinal herb quality Commonwealth of Dominicahumoral medicine and food Cubapromoting health through medicinal foods Brazilmedicinal uses of specific fishes Brazilplants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Bolivian Andestraditional food medicines New Patagoniagathering of wild plant foods with medicinal uses Western Kenyauses of traditional herbs among the Luo people South Cameroonethnomycology in Africa Moroccofood medicine and ethnopharmacologyEating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is an essential research guide and educational text about food and medicine in traditional societies for educators, students from undergraduate through graduate levels, botanists, and research specialists in nutrition and food science, anthropology, agriculture, ethnoecology, ethnobotany, and ethnobiology."--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Nutrition.
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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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Nutrition
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Price, Lisa, author
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| ISBN |
9781482293616 |
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1482293617 |
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