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

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9781560229827

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Pieroni, Andrea.

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New York : Food Products Press, c2005.

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xviii, 406 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

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, Ramón 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 Godínez -- 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.

Subject Term:

Medicinal plants.

Diet therapy.

Ethnobotany.

Traditional medicine.

Wild plants, Edible -- Therapeutic use.

Added Author:

Pieroni, Andrea.

Price, Lisa Leimar.

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Books

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Publication Date:

2005

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New York : Food Products Press, c2005.

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Discover neglected wild food sources--that can also be used as medicine!

The long-standing notion of "food as medicine, medicine as food," can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive case studies, provides a clear, authoritative look at the many neglected food sources still being used around the world today. This book bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology, and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and ethnomedicine to provide a valuable multidisciplinary resource for education and instruction.

Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine presents respected researchers' in-depth case studies on foods different cultures use as medicines and as remedies for nutritional deficiencies in diet. Comparisons of living conditions in different geographic areas as well as differences in diet and medicines are thoroughly discussed and empirically evaluated to provide scientific evidence of the many uses of these traditional foods as medicine and as functional foods. The case studies focus on the uses of plants, seaweed, mushrooms, and fish within their cultural contexts while showing the dietary and medical importance of these foods. The book provides comprehensive tables, extensive references, useful photographs, and helpful illustrations to provide clear scientific support as well as opportunities for further thought and study.

Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine explores the ethnobiology of:
Tibet--antioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology
Northeast Thailand--"wild" food plant gathering
Southern Italy--the consumption of wild plants by Albanians and Italians
Northern Spain--medicinal digestive beverages
United States--medicinal herb quality
Commonwealth of Dominica--humoral medicine and food
Cuba--promoting health through medicinal foods
Brazil--medicinal uses of specific fishes
Brazil--plants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest
Bolivian Andes--traditional food medicines
New Patagonia--gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal uses
Western Kenya--uses of traditional herbs among the Luo people
South Cameroon--ethnomycology in Africa
Morocco--food medicine and ethnopharmacology

Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is an essential research guide and educational text about food and medicine in traditional societies for educators, students from undergraduate through graduate levels, botanists, and research specialists in nutrition and food science, anthropology, agriculture, ethnoecology, ethnobotany, and ethnobiology.

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In the specialized fields of ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and ethnomedicine, food and medicine have traditionally been considered separate realms of study. Recently, the two have begun to be studied in conjunction, as this book demonstrates. Editors Pieroni (pharmacognosy, Univ. of Bradford, U.K.) and Price (sociology of consumers and households, Wageningen Univ., the Netherlands) have compiled primary research from 26 contributors on wild and semidomesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional or indigenous cultures in Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean (the South Pacific/Australia and Arctic regions are not represented). Each chapter is, in essence, a scientific paper documenting the overlap of medicine and food in one region (e.g., northern Spain, New Patagonia). Although the book's scope is broad, each paper is quite specific-readers should not anticipate an overview of the field. Pieroni and Price have produced what would be an excellent accompaniment to a course textbook in applicable university settings. Recommended for academic libraries.-Andy Wickens, King Cty. Lib. Syst., Seattle (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimar PriceLouis E. GrivettiPatrick L. OwenLisa Leimar PriceAndrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. QuaveManuel Pardo de Santayana and Elia San Miguel and Ramon MoralesNancy J. Turner and Helen CliftonCraig A. Hassel and Christopher A. Hafner and Renne Soberg and Jeff AdelmannMarsha B. Quinlan and Robert J. QuinlanGabriele Volpato and Daimy GodinezAlpina Begossi and Natalia Hanazaki and Rossano M. RamosNatalia Hanazaki and Nivaldo Peroni and Alpina BegossiIna Vandebroek and Sabino SancaAna H. LadioCharles Ogoye-Ndegwa and Jens Aagaard-HansenThomas W. KuyperMohamed Eddouks

About the Editors	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Copyright Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Asia	p. 3
Europe	p. 4
North America	p. 5
The Caribbean	p. 5
South America	p. 6
Africa	p. 7
Chapter 1 Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
Genesis	p. 11
Three Decades of Ethnobotanical Research	p. 19
Reflections and Potential Research Areas	p. 29
Coda	p. 34
Chapter 2 Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology	p. 39
Introduction	p. 39
Adaptations to Altitude	p. 41
Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants	p. 42
Tibetan High-Altitude Food Systems	p. 45
Tibetan Medicine	p. 49
Summary	p. 53
Chapter 3 Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Functional and Medicinal, and the Social Roles of Women	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
Wild Plant Foods in the Farming Environment	p. 66
Women's Roles, Women's Work, and Women's Knowledge	p. 71
Consumption and Nutrition	p. 74
Overlaps: Medicinal and Functional Food	p. 77
Medicinal and Functional Food: Wild Plants of Northeast Thailand	p. 79
Gathered Food Plants of Northeast Thailand with Medicinal Value	p. 81
Investigations of Wild Plant Foods As Functional/Medicinal Foods in Thailand	p. 88
Multiple-Use Value, Rarity, and Privatization	p. 89
Conclusions	p. 91
Chapter 4 Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania	p. 101
Introduction	p. 101
Ethnographic Background	p. 103
Field Methods	p. 106
Wild Food and Medicinal Plants in Lucania	p. 107
Pharmacology of Wild Functional Foods Consumed in Southern Italy	p. 121
Conclusion	p. 123
Chapter 5 Digestive Beverages As a Medicinal Food in a Cattle-Farming Community in Northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria)	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
Changes in Food and Health Habits and Conditions	p. 135
Medicinal Food: Digestive Beverages	p. 141
Conclusions	p. 149
Chapter 6 "The Forest and the Seaweed": Gitga'at Seaweed, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Community Survival	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
Seaweed Use Worldwide	p. 156
Gitga'at Seaweed Use	p. 157
The Forest and the Seaweed	p. 166
Back Home in Hartley Bay	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 175
Chapter 7 Medicinal Herb Quality in the United States: Bridging Perspectives with Chinese Medical Theory	p. 179
Context from a Biomedical Perspective	p. 179
Context from a Chinese Medical Theory Perspective	p. 182
Dilemma of "Integrating" Two Divergent Epistemologies	p. 188
Founding a Medicinal Herb Network	p. 189
Chapter 8 Balancing the System: Humoral Medicine and Food in the Commonwealth of Dominica	p. 197
Introduction	p. 197
Setting	p. 199
Methods	p. 200
Results and Discussion	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 211
Chapter 9 Medicinal Foods in Cuba: Promoting Health in the Household	p. 213
Introduction	p. 213
Results and Discussion	p. 214
Conclusions	p. 230
Chapter 10 Healthy Fish: Medicinal and Recommended Species in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest Coast (Brazil)	p. 237
Introduction	p. 237
Methods	p. 239
Results and Discussion	p. 239
Conclusions	p. 247
Chapter 11 Edible and Healing Plants in the Ethnobotany of Native Inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Areas of Brazil	p. 251
Introduction	p. 251
Study Site and Methods	p. 253
Results and Discussion	p. 256
Conclusions	p. 263
Appendix	p. 263
Chapter 12 Food Medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department)	p. 273
Introduction	p. 273
Study Area	p. 274
Ethnographic Data	p. 275
Methodology	p. 276
Results and Discussion	p. 277
Conclusion	p. 294
Chapter 13 Gathering of Wild Plant Foods with Medicinal Use in a Mapuche Community of Northwest Patagonia	p. 297
Introduction	p. 297
Study Area	p. 301
Methods	p. 302
Results	p. 305
Discussion	p. 315
Chapter 14 Dietary and Medicinal Use of Traditional Herbs Among the Luo of Western Kenya	p. 323
Introduction	p. 323
Materials and Methods	p. 326
Results	p. 328
Discussion	p. 338
Conclusion	p. 340
Chapter 15 Ethnomycology in Africa, with Particular Reference to the Rain Forest Zone of South Cameroon	p. 345
Introduction	p. 345
Mycophilia versus Mycophobia	p. 346
Overview of Mushroom Use in Africa	p. 347
Mushroom Knowledge and Utilization by Bantu and Bagyeli in South Cameroon	p. 349
Mushrooms: Meat of the Poor	p. 353
Chapter 16 Aspects of Food Medicine and Ethnopharmacology in Morocco	p. 357
Introduction	p. 357
Food Medicine	p. 358
Phytotherapy	p. 368
Conclusions	p. 376
Index	p. 383

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