Reconstruction of the inventory of materia medica used by members of the Jewish community of medieval Cairo according to prescriptions found in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection, Cambridge

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 428-444

  Lev, Efraim ^a   Amar, Zohar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cairo; Ethnopharmacology; Genizah; Jewish community; Materia medica; Medieval; Mediterranean; Prescription

Indexed keywords

ACORUS CALAMUS EXTRACT; AMYGDALUS COMMUNIS EXTRACT; APIUM GRAVEOLENS EXTRACT; BERBERIS CRETICA EXTRACT; BETA VULGARIS EXTRACT; BITUMINARIA BITUMINOSA EXTRACT; CASSIA ACUTIFOLIA EXTRACT; CASSIA FISTULA EXTRACT; CHELIDONIUM EXTRACT; CICHORIUM INTYBUS EXTRACT; CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA EXTRACT; CITRILLUS COLOCYNTHIS EXTRACT; COMMIPHORA MUKUL EXTRACT; CORIANDUM SATIVUM EXTRACT; CUCUMIS MELO EXTRACT; CUMINUM CYMINUM EXTRACT; CUSCUTA EPITHYMUM EXTRACT; DAUCUS CAROTA EXTRACT; ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM EXTRACT; FOENICULUM VULGARE EXTRACT; LAGENARIA VULGARIS EXTRACT; LYCIUM AFRUM EXTRACT; MATERIA MEDICA; MORINGA PEREGRINA EXTRACT; NIGELLA SATIVA EXTRACT; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; PIMPENELLA ANISUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TRIFOLIUM ALEXANDRINUM EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALMOND; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMMUNITY; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG RESEARCH; ENDIVE; EYE DISEASE; FEVER; GYNECOLOGY; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEMORRHOID; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; ISRAEL; JEW; LIBRARY; LIP DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LOUSE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MIGRAINE; PERIODONTITIS; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; ROSE; SKIN DISEASE; STOMACH; SWELLING; TOOTH DISEASE; ULCER; URINARY TRACT;

COUGH; EGYPT; FEVER; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; JEWS; MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICAL; MATERIA MEDICA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

ANIMALIA; PHTHIRAPTERA; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

EID: 33750628170     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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