A Mini-Course in
MEDICAL BOTANY
SYLLABUS
James A. Duke
Ethnobotanist
The Herbal Village
8210 Murphy Road
Fulton, Maryland 20759
CONTENTS
Skipping Along The World Wide Web
Module 1: Introductory Botany
Module 2: Phytochemicals
Module 3: Formulations
Module 4: Aromathematic
Module 5: HDR (Herbalists' Desk Reference)
Module 6: American and Amerindian
Module 7: MICMAC
MODULE 8: Amazonian (Iberoamerican)
Module 9: African
Module 10: Arabic
Module 11: Ayurvedic
Module 12: Biblical
Module 13: Chinese
Module 14: Hawaiian
Module 15: Last and Least...Dangerous Herbs
Module 16: European
Module 17: Green Pharmacy
Module 18: Multiple Activities
Module 19: GRAS Botanicals
Your Instructor
Appendix 1: The Herbal Alternative
Appendix 2: Biting the Biocide Bullet
Coming Soon: Herbal Litigation
Coming Soon: Reading List (Books; Newsletters; Periodicals; Web Sites)
WARNING: This syllabus is offered as an
informational compilation, none of which is intended for diagnosis or
treatment of disease. As an ethnobotanist, James A. Duke does not diagnose
or prescribe. He has compiled folk remedies from throughout the world and
has sought chemical data that might support their applications. Physicians
and other licensed practitioners are urged to be open to new information
on the effectiveness of herbs that may suggest that an herbal alternative
may be as good as a synthetic pharmaceutical option. Neither the
Univeristy of Maryland, the University of Maryland Foundation Inc., nor
the author of this syllabus recommends self diagnosis, self medication or
use of unproven folk remedies. Dr. Duke does encourage unbiased
scientific analyses that will result in less costly, more efficacious,
and/or safer medicines.
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