Kava: The Pacific Elixir: The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry Tapa blanda - 1997
de Vincent Lebot; Mark Merlin; Lamont Lindstrom
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ETHNOBOTANY The most comprehensive treatment of kava ever written, Kava: The Pacific Elixir summarizes the literature and research on a plant that is now considered comparable or superior to anti-stress prescription drugs. Kava is consumed throughout the Pacific as a relaxing beverage for social interaction and as a support to religious inspiration. Because of its many beneficial qualities it is superior to alcohol, nicotine, tranquilizers, and other substances that serve to reduce stress and improve mood. Interest in kava is growing worldwide and its consumption is now extending well beyond the Pacific Rim as new products are developed from it for pharmacological and recreational markets worldwide. Exhaustively researched, Kava: The Pacific Elixir offers an extensive survey of this amazing plant from the perspective of the horticulturalist, the ethnobotanist, and the pharmacologist. It provides compelling insights into this plant that has been an integral part of the religious, political, and economic life of the Pacific islands for centuries. It contains information that is invaluable to the serious scholar yet is not written with the specialist alone in mind. Beyond its soporific qualities Kava is also used throughout the islands of the Pacific as an analgesic, a diuretic, and an anesthetic. There is even evidence suggesting it is effective in the treatment of asthma, tuberculosis, and venereal disease. VINCENT LEBOT is a geneticist and plant breeder studying the improvement of tropical root crops. MARK MERLIN is a professor at the University of Hawaii specializing in ethnobotany and tropical ecology, and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. LAMONT LINDSTROM is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa and is also the author of Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society and Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond.
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- Título Kava: The Pacific Elixir: The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry
- Autor Vincent Lebot; Mark Merlin; Lamont Lindstrom
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Printing
- Páginas 272
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 1997-02
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780892817269 / 0892817267
- Peso 0.95 libras (0.43 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.91 x 5.97 x 0.63 pulgadas (22.63 x 15.16 x 1.60 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ethnology - Oceania, Oceania - Social life and customs
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 97001057
- Dewey Decimal Code 615.323
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