Medicinal plants : can utilization and conservation coexist?
People of many cultures have long relied on plants for their medicinal value. Demand on a large scale, however, some-times leads to degradation of these valuable resources. --
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| Language: | English |
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Bronx, New York :
The New York Botanical Garden, Scientific Publications Department,
©1997
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| Series: | Advances in economic botany ;
v.12 |
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Table of Contents:
- Plants as medicines.
- Collection and cultivation.
- The role of plants in traditional medicine.
- Medicinal Plants international herbal markets.
- The role of plants in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Links between medicinal plants and conservations prospects and pitfalls.