Therapeutic properties and uses of marine invertebrates in the ancient Greek world and early Byzantium

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-247

  Voultsiadou Eleni, E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dioscorides; Galen; Hippocrates; Paleoethnopharmacology; Paleoethnozoology; Zootherapy

Indexed keywords

NATURAL PRODUCT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALOPECIA; ANEMONIA VIRIDIS; APLYSIA DEPILANS; ARCA NOAE; ARTICLE; ASTROPECTEN BISPINOSUS; BLADDER DISEASE; BOLINUS BRANDAARIS; BRACHYURA SPP; BROTH DILUTION; BURN; CALLISTA CHIONE; CANCER PAGURUS; CERASTODERMA GLAUCUM; CERITHIUM VULGATUM; CHARONIA TRITONIS; CHLAMYS SPP; CIDARIS CIDARIS; COLD INJURY; CONSTIPATION; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; CYSTITIS; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOG BITE; DONAX TRUNCULUS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DYSENTERY; DYSURIA; ELEDONE MOSCHATA; EYE CANCER; EYE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GOUT; GREECE; HALIOTIS TUBERCULATA; HALOCYNTHIA PAPILLOSA; HEADACHE; HEMORRHOID; HERMODICE CARUNCULATA; HEXAPLEX TRUNCULUS; HIP PAIN; HIPPOSPONGIA COMMUNIS; HOMARUS GAMMARUS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INVERTEBRATE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEPROSY; LITHOPHAGA LITHOPHAGA; LOLIGO VULGARIS; MARINE SPECIES; MASTALGIA; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRAINE; MODIOLUS BARBATUS; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; NATANTIA SPP; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS VULGARIS; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OSTREA EDULIS; OTALGIA; PAIN; PALINURUS ELEPHAS; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; PATELLA CAERULEA; PECTEN SPP; PELAGIA NOCTILUCA; PHOLAS DACTYLUS; PINNA NOBILIS; PSORIASIS; RECTUM FISTULA; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SAVALIA SAVAGLIA; SCALD; SKIN DISEASE; STOMACH DISEASE; SUPPOSITORY; TAXONOMY; THAIS HAEMASTOMA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TYPHUS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UTERUS PROLAPSE; WOUND INFECTION; ANIMAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BYZANTIUM; GREEK WORLD; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; COLLYRIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 77954952443     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.04.041     Document Type: Article

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