Eating and healing : traditional food as medicine / Andrea Pieroni, Lisa Leimar Price, editors [book]

Includes bibliographical references and index

Edible wild plants as food and as medicine / Louis E. Grivetti -- Tibetan foods and medicines / Patrick L. Owen -- Wild food plants in farming environments with special reference to northeast Thailand, food as functional and medicinal, and the social roles of women / Lisa Leimar Price -- Functional foods or food medicines? / Andrea Pieroni, Cassandra L. Quave -- Digestive beverages as a medicinal food in a cattle-farming community in northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria) / Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Elia San Miguel, Ram<U+1BAE> Morales -- "The forest and the seaweed" / Nancy J. Turner, Helen Clifton -- Medicinal herb quality in the United States / Craig A. Hassel ... [et al.] -- Balancing the system / Marsha B. Quinlan, Robert J. Quinlan -- Medicinal foods in Cuba / Gabriele Volpato, Daimy God<U+1A2E>ez -- Healthy fish / Alpina Begossi, Natalia Hanazaki, Rossano M. Ramos -- Edible and healing plants in the ethnobotany of native inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic forest areas of Brazil / Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni, Alpina Begossi -- Food medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department) / Ina Vandebroek, Sabino Sanca -- Gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal use in a Mapuche community of northwest Patagonia / Ana H. Ladio -- Dietary and

medicinal use of traditional herbs among the Luo of western Kenya / Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa, Jens Aagaard-Hansen -- Ethnomycology in Africa with particular reference to the rain forest zone of south Cameroon / Thomas W. Kuyper -- Aspects of food medicine and ethnopharmacology in Morocco / Mohamed Eddouks