Reconstruction of the inventory of materia medica used by members of the Jewish community of medieval Cairo according to prescriptions found in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection, Cambridge.

Lev, Efraim; Amar, Zohar

Lev, Efraim; Amar, Zohar.

Affiliation

Lev E; Department of Eretz Israel Studies and School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. efraiml@research.haifa.ac.il

J Ethnopharmacol ; 108(3): 428-44, 2006 Dec 06.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16893620

Subject(s)

Materia Medica/analysis; Medicine, Traditional/history; Phytotherapy/history; Plants, Medicinal/chemistry; Cough/drug therapy; Drug Prescriptions/history; Egypt; Fever/drug therapy; History, Medieval; Humans; Jews/ethnology; Manuscripts, Medical as Topic/history; Materia Medica/therapeutic use; Plants, Medicinal/classification; United Kingdom

Search on Google

Add to My VHL

XML

PubMed Links

Database: MEDLINE Traditional Medicines: Medicina_tradicional_de_europa Complementary Medicines: Homeopatia Therapeutic Methods and Therapies TCIM: Terapias_biologicas / Plantas_medicinales Main subject: Plants, Medicinal / Materia Medica / Phytotherapy / Medicine, Traditional Type of study: Prognostic_studies Country/Region as subject: Africa / Europa Language: En Journal: J Ethnopharmacol Year: 2006 Type: Article Affiliation country: Israel

Search on Google

Add to My VHL

XML

PubMed Links