About the Editors | p. xi |
Contributors | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Copyright Acknowledgments | p. xviii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimar PriceAsia | 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 |
Louis E. GrivettiIntroduction | 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 |
Patrick L. OwenIntroduction | 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 |
Lisa Leimar PriceIntroduction | 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 |
Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. QuaveIntroduction | 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 |
Manuel Pardo de Santayana and Elia San Miguel and Ramon MoralesIntroduction | 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 |
Nancy J. Turner and Helen CliftonIntroduction | 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 |
Craig A. Hassel and Christopher A. Hafner and Renne Soberg and Jeff AdelmannContext 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 |
Marsha B. Quinlan and Robert J. QuinlanIntroduction | 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 |
Gabriele Volpato and Daimy GodinezIntroduction | 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 |
Alpina Begossi and Natalia Hanazaki and Rossano M. RamosIntroduction | 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 |
Natalia Hanazaki and Nivaldo Peroni and Alpina BegossiIntroduction | 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 |
Ina Vandebroek and Sabino SancaIntroduction | 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 |
Ana H. LadioIntroduction | 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 |
Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa and Jens Aagaard-HansenIntroduction | 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 |
Thomas W. KuyperIntroduction | 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 |
Mohamed EddouksIntroduction | p. 357 |
Food Medicine | p. 358 |
Phytotherapy | p. 368 |
Conclusions | p. 376 |
Index | p. 383 |