Arabic-L:LING:Medicine/Herbs references responses

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1) Subject:Sources on Medicines/Herbs
2) Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk
Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

There is a substantial literature in English on Islamic pharmacopaeia
and herbal medicine (and much more besides in other Western
languages), e.g.

Handbook of Arabian medicinal plants, by Shahin Ghazanfar (Boca
Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1994), and the series of books by
Wataru Miki and others published by the Institute for the Study of
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa in Tokyo (Herb drugs and
herbalists in the Maghrib, Herb drugs and herbalists in the Middle
East, Index of the Arab herbalist's materials, etc.)

In addition various important mediaeval Islamic material medica have
been translated into English, for example, Al-Biruni's Book of
pharmacy and materia medica (translated by S.K.Hamarneh, Karachi,
1973, in 2 vols) and The medical formulary or Aqrabadhin of Al-Kindi
(translated by Martin Levey, Madison, 1966) to name but two.

All of the above provide bilingual lists of plants and medicines.

Paul Auchterlonie
Librarian for Middle East Studies
University of Exeter

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Christian Sinclair <www.sit.edu/studyabroad>
Subject:Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

There is "A Dictionary of Medicinal Plants" by Dr Yussof Abu Najm.
Publisher: Librairie du Liban.  The edition I have was published in
1992.
Book no. 01D110905.

The book is almost all in Arabic, explaining the uses of different herbs
and plants.  Then it also has the name of the plant in English, Latin
and French.

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