"Fossils" of practical medical knowledge from medieval Cairo

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-40

  Lev, Efraim ^a   Amar, Zohar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cairo; Cairo Genizah; Genizah; History; Jewish community; Materia medica; Medicine; Medieval ethnopharmacology; Middle ages; Practical

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE; CHAMOMILE; GUM ARABIC; GUM TRAGACANTH; MATERIA MEDICA; PAEONIA EXTRACT;

ALMOND; ALOE; ARTICLE; BASIL; BEET; BRASSICA; CARDAMOM; CARROT; CELERY; CHERRY; CHICORY; CITRON; COCONUT; COLIC; CORAL; CORIANDER; COUGHING; EGYPT; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EYE DISEASE; FENNEL; FEVER; GINGER; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEMORRHOID; HISTORY; HONEY; IRIDACEAE; JUJUBE; LAVENDER; MIDDLE AGES; MYRTLE; ONION; PEDICULOSIS; PEPPER; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; POMEGRANATE; PRESCRIPTION; RADISH; ROSE; SENNA; SESAME; SNAKEBITE; SUGARCANE; TAMARIND; TERMINALIA; VITIVIRUS; WALNUT; WATERMELON; WOUND DRESSING;

DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; EGYPT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICAL; MATERIA MEDICA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ARALIA; EQUUS ASINUS; GLYCYRRHIZA; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

EID: 49149125849     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2008.05.042     Document Type: Article

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