Provides an overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods, and their medicinal properties within traditional societies. This volume bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology and ethnomedicine.
Provides an overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods, and their medicinal properties within traditional societies. This volume bridges the scienti...
Let food be your medicine, and medicine your food. Hippocrates' dictum is followed by many traditional cultures. Similarly, functional foods are becoming increasingly popular in the West. Pieroni (ethnobotany/pharmacognosy, U. of Bradford, UK) and Price (sociology, Wageningen U., the Netherlands) introduce 16 chapters focusing on food and bever
Let food be your medicine, and medicine your food. Hippocrates' dictum is followed by many traditional cultures. Similarly, functional foods are becom...
