The Best 100 Philippine Medicinal Plants by Jaime Z. Galvez Tan

By Jaime Z. Galvez Tan and Isidro C. Sia

The Best 100 Philippine medicinal plants is an epic attempt to highlight and affirm the value of medicine plants in the Philippine tradition of healing, both in respect to its Asian cultural roots and to the Western medicinal practice. It corrects misconceptions and reemphasizes the indispensable character of Philippine herbal medicinal craft and science. The book, a hundreds-page tome assembled by two of the nation's foremost experts in traditional medicine and medicinal plants brings back to mind the seminal and landmark book of Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing first published more than 60 years ago. It portrays a hundred medicinal plants used not only by the herbolaryo, but whose pharmacologically-active chemicals have been extracted and studied in search for the new aspirin or the new vincristine.
A Philippine import. Limited copies available.

ISBN: 978-62-1-042317-4
Page: 456 pages
Cover: Paperbound