Kava: The Pacific Elixir: The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry - Brossura

Lebot, Vincent; Merlin, Mark; Lindstrom, Lamont

 
9780892817269: Kava: The Pacific Elixir: The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry
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ISBN 10: 0892817267 ISBN 13: 9780892817269
Casa editrice: Healing Arts Press, 1997

Sinossi

• The most comprehensive book ever written on nature's most effective stress-relieving plant.

• First paperback edition of the classic comprehensive text originally published by Yale University Press.

This complete guide to kava summarizes the literature and research on a plant that is now considered comparable or superior to anti-stress prescription drugs, and describes its use in the religious, political, and economic life of the Pacific islands for centuries. Beyond its soporific qualities kava is also used throughout the the Pacific as an analgesic, a diuretic, and an anesthetic. There is even evidence suggesting it is effective in the treatment of asthma, tuberculosis, and venereal disease. Exhaustively researched, Kava: The Pacific Elixir offers an extensive survey of this amazing plant from the perspective of the horticulturist, the ethnobotanist, and the pharmacologist.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Vincent Lebot was a research fellow in the department of Horticulture at the University of Hawaii. Mark Merlin is an associate professor in the General Science department at the same university. Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa.

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Editore
Healing Arts Press
Data di pubblicazione
1997
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0892817267
ISBN 13 
9780892817269
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
272
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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