The efficacy, history, and politics of medicinal plants

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 36-41

  Lipp, Frank J ^a,b  

^a Foundation for Shamanic Studies   (United States)

^b INNOVISION COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; HISTORY; MEDICINAL PLANT; REVIEW;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 0030188005     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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