Tibetan Medicinal Plants

Presenting a comprehensive look at a centuries old science, Tibetan Medicinal Plants provides an overview of plant types that makes it easy for the reader to grasp the Tibetan medicinal concept. The book opens with a summary of Tibetan medicine and covers the various habitats in which the plants are found. The main part of this volume contains 60 monographs listed by the Tibetan plant name. Each monograph addresses different topics related either to the Tibetan or the Western approach. Most of the monographs contain a description of the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of the used plant parts, and anatomical features of 76 plants are provided.
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