Herbal medicine in Yemen : traditional knowledge and practice, and their value for today's world

Foreword, Sheikh A. Bawazir Acknowledgements A note on transliteration convention List of illustrations and maps Introduction: Hanne Schonig and Ingrid Hehmeyer Chapter One: The validity of traditional medicine as an effective tool in issues of human health, Ingrid Hehmeyer Chapter Two: Eastern Mediterranean pharmacology and India trade as a background for Yemeni medieval medicinal plants, Efraim Lev Chapter Three: Magic and medicine in a thirteenth-century treatise on the science of the stars, Petra G. Schmidl Chapter Four: Qat and traditional healing in Yemen, Daniel Martin Varisco Chapter Five: The aloe and the frankincense tree in southern Arabia: Different approaches to their use, Miranda Morris Chapter Six: Healing through medicinal plants: Old Yemenite therapeutic traditions and their application in Jerusalem today, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper Chapter Seven : Honey, coffee, and tea in cultural practices of Hadramawt, Mikhail Rodionov Chapter Eight: From medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal drugs, Jacques Fleurentin Chapter Nine: The miraculous plant halqa (Cyphostemma digitatum): From grandmother's kitchen in Yemen's south-western highlands to modern medicinal and culinary applications, Mohammed Al-Duais and Gottfried Jetschke Chapter Ten: A pharmacist's view of the potential value to modern medicine of plants and fungi used by traditional medicine in Yemen, Ulrike Lindequist Chapter Eleven: Health issues in the mountains of Yemen: Healing practices as part of farmers' traditional knowledge, Amin Al-Hakimi, Anhar Ya'ni, and Frederic Pelat About the authors Index of plants and fungi Index of names Index of topics and keywords