Handbook of medicinal herbs/ James A. Duke, with Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Judi duCellier, Peggy-Ann K. Duke.

Previously published: CRC handbook of medicinal herbs.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 821-827) and index.

Alphabetical listing of medicinal herbs by common name; About the author; James A. Duke, Ph. D. Economic Botanist, USDA is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, where he received his Ph. D. in Botany and was identified as a distinguished alumnus in 2001. He then moved on to postdoctoral activities at Washington University and the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, Missouri, where he assumed professorial and curator duties, respectively. He retired from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1995 after a 35-year career there and elsewhere as an economic botanist. He then served more than five years as Senior Scientific Advisor to Nature's Herbs (A Twin Labs Subsidiary). In 2002, he as resumed teaching at the Tai-Sophia Institute Masters Program in Botanical Healing, Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Duke is the author of over 20 books, including the bestselling Green Pharmacy, and the creator of Father Nature's Farmacy, an on-line database that catalogs the nutritional value, chemical activities and quantities, and healing potential of thousands of plants.