صيدلانية سعودية
مشرفة قسم الصيدلة
Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: 2007-12-26
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0849382025
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780849382024
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: 2007-12-26
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0849382025
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780849382024
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Readers have come to depend on Jim Dukes comprehensive handbooks for their ease of use and artful presentation of scientific information. Following the successful format of his other CRC handbooks,[FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]Dukes[/FONT][/FONT] Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible contains 150 herbs listed alphabetically and by scientific name. Each entry provides illustrations of the plant, family line information, synonyms, notes, common names, activities, indications, dosages, downsides and interactions, natural history, and extracts. This comprehensive text also includes Biblical quotes from various translations, such as the King James version and Revised Standard edition, along with comments on points of interest.
Summary: A seminal and invaluable contribution
Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Plants are referred to and referenced throughout the books, poetry, and letters that comprise the Old and [FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]New [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]Testaments[/FONT][/FONT]of the Bible. "Duke's handbook Of Medicinal Plants Of The Bible" is a 528-page compendium of superbly organized and presented information on biblical plants that provides both academicians and non-specialist general readers with a complete, descriptive listing of the herbs that, based on citations, scholars and ethnobotanists feel were utilized by the people of the biblical era. Enhanced with an evidence-based scoring system for these plants, "Duke's Handbook Of Medicinal Plants Of The Bible" compares and contrasts citations from different versions of the Bible, presents multilingual nomenclatures providing historical and geographic roots for each featured entry, and even covers [[FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]dosages[/FONT][/FONT] that have been used historical for various human and animal ailments. Superbly enhanced with full color drawings of individual plants, each specific entry provides family line information, synonyms, notes, common names, activities, indications, dosages, dosages, downsides and interactions, natural history and extracts. Biblical quotations are provided from various [FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]translations[/FONT][/FONT] of the bible from the King James version to the Revised Standard edition -- along with comments on points of interest. A superb[FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]writer[/FONT][/FONT] and expert, James A. Duke (with the assistance and collaboration of Peggy-Ann K. Duke and Judith L. duCellier) has provided a seminal and invaluable contribution that should be a part of every academic library reference collection, as well as on the supplemental reading lists for students of herbal medicine, [FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]alternative [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif]medicine[/FONT][/FONT], botany, and biblical studies.
