Harmal - Lansky, Ephraim Shmaya

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Auteur(s) : Lansky, Ephraim Shmaya - Lansky, Shifra - Paavilainen, Helena Maaria

Editeur : Crc Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 278

ISBN : 9781032096230

Résumé :

Harmal (Syrian rue, Peganum harmala and its relatives) is an important medicinal plant of the Mediterranean and Indo-Iranian areas with a rich historical tradition of its use and a number of experimental modern applications. It has a record for treating inflammation, skin cancer and hemorrhoids. This book focuses on its medicinal virtues

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Biographie:
Case Studies from Ibn Sina and Some of His Late Medieval Commentators, Leiden: Brill, 2009) on the development of medical drug therapy in medieval times and on the potential validity of medieval herbal treatments. She also coauthored with Dr. Lansky the monograph Figs: The Genus Ficus (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2010), and with Dr. Lansky and Shifra Lansky the sequel Caper: The Genus Capparis in 2014. She currently works as a freelance consultant bioprospecting ancient and medieval herbal texts for practical applications in medicine, functional nutrition, and agriculture.

Sommaire:

Introduction. The Genus Peganum. Entheogenesis and Entheogenic Employment of Harmal. Overview of Employment of Harmal in Traditional Iranian Medicine. Harmal as Anticancer Agent in Traditional Chinese and Iranian Medicine. Phytochemistry of Harmal. Modern Pharmacognostic Investigation of Harmal. Clinical Anticancer Use of Harmal: Two Cases - Case 1. Oligoastrocytoma. Case 2. Ovarian Carcinoma. Lympho-Neuric Syncytium and the Somatodelic Hypothesis. Conclusion. Epilogue. Appendix 1: Laboratory Identification of Harmala and Quinazoline Alkaloids. Appendix 2: Peganum harmala Inebriations/Provings.