Fijian Medicinal Plants

RC Cambie,J Ash

• Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
• Year: 1994
• ISBN:
  9780643102958
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

This comprehensive compilation presents the available reports on the medicinal use of Fijian plants in an attractive and readable form using 'everyday' terms as much as possible. The book covers the origin and dispersal of plants, literature, use of medicinal plants within traditional Fijian culture, diseases of Fiji, and medicinal chemicals from plants. Four hundred and fifty plant species are described.

The entries for species are arranged by plant family, and give current botanical name, Fijian or local name, brief botanical notes, medicinal uses and chemistry. Separate indexes to plant species and Fijian names are provided, as well as a glossary of medicinal and botanical terms.

This book may point the way to plants from which new and effective cures might be obtained.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Ferns and fern allies
• Flowering plants
• Colour plates
• Glossary
• Index of scientific names
• Index of Fijian and local names