Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As

The long-standing notion of "food as medicine, medicine as food," can be traced back to Hippocrates. Today's emphasis on antioxidants in fruits and vegetables shows that this concept has not weakened with age. From Cuba to Kenya, from Morocco to Tibet, Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine looks in-depth at the wild and semi-domesticated foods-wild plants, seaweed, mushrooms, fish, and more-that different cultures use as medicines and remedies.

About the Editors

xi

Contributors

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Copyright Acknowledgments

xviii

Introduction

1

(2)

Andrea Pieroni

Lisa Leimar Price

Asia

3

(1)

Europe

4

(1)

North America

5

(1)

The Caribbean

5

(1)

South America

6

(1)

Africa

7

(4)

Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork

11

(28)

Louis E. Grivetti

Introduction

11

(1)

Genesis

11

(8)

Three Decades of Ethnobotanical Research

19

(10)

Reflections and Potential Research Areas

29

(5)

Coda

34

(5)

Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology

39

(26)

Patrick L. Owen

Introduction

39

(2)

Adaptations to Altitude

41

(1)

Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants

42

(3)

Tibetan High-Altitude Food Systems

45

(4)

Tibetan Medicine

49

(4)

Summary

53

(12)

Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Functional and Medicinal, and the Social Roles of Women

65

(36)

Lisa Leimar Price

Introduction

65

(1)

Wild Plant Foods in the Farming Environment

66

(5)

Women's Roles, Women's Work, and Women's Knowledge

71

(3)

Consumption and Nutrition

74

(3)

Overlaps: Medicinal and Functional Food

77

(2)

Medicinal and Functional Food: Wild Plants of Northeast Thailand

79

(2)

Gathered Food Plants of Northeast Thailand with Medicinal Value

81

(7)

Investigations of Wild Plant Foods As Functional/Medicinal Foods in Thailand

88

(1)

Multiple-Use Value, Rarity, and Privatization

89

(2)

Conclusions

91

(10)

Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania

101

(30)

Andrea Pieroni

Cassandra L. Quave

Introduction

101

(2)

Ethnographic Background

103

(3)

Field Methods

106

(1)

Wild Food and Medicinal Plants in Lucania

107

(14)

Pharmacology of Wild Functional Foods Consumed in Southern Italy

121

(2)

Conclusion

123

(8)

Digestive Beverages As a Medicinal Food in a Cattle-Farming Community in Northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria)

131

(22)

Manuel Pardo de Santayana

Elia San Miguel

Ramon Morales

Introduction

131

(4)

Changes in Food and Health Habits and Conditions

135

(6)

Medicinal Food: Digestive Beverages

141

(8)

Conclusions

149

(4)

``The Forest and the Seaweed'': Gitga'at Seaweed, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Community Survival

153

(26)

Nancy J. Turner

Helen Clifton

Introduction

153

(3)

Seaweed Use Worldwide

156

(1)

Gitga' at Seaweed Use

157

(9)

The Forest and the Seaweed

166

(1)

Back Home in Hartley Bay

167

(8)

Conclusion

175

(4)

Medicinal Herb Quality in the United States: Bridging Perspectives with Chinese Medical Theory

179

(18)

Craig A. Hassel

Christopher A. Hafner

Renne Soberg

Jeff Adelmann

Context from a Biomedical Perspective

179

(3)

Context from a Chinese Medical Theory Perspective

182

(6)

Dilemma of ``Integrating'' Two Divergent Epistemologies

188

(1)

Founding a Medicinal Herb Network

189

(8)

Balancing the System: Humoral Medicine and Food in the Commonwealth of Dominica

197

(16)

Marsha B. Quinlan

Robert J. Quinlan

Introduction

197

(2)

Setting

199

(1)

Methods

200

(2)

Results and Discussion

202

(9)

Conclusion

211

(2)

Medicinal Foods in Cuba: Promoting Health in the Household

213

(24)

Gabriele Volpato

Daimy Godinez

Introduction

213

(1)

Results and Discussion

214

(16)

Conclusions

230

(7)

Healthy Fish: Medicinal and Recommended Species in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest Coast (Brazil)

237

(14)

Alpina Begossi

Natalia Hanazaki

Rossano M. Ramos

Introduction

237

(2)

Methods

239

(1)

Results and Discussion

239

(8)

Conclusions

247

(4)

Edible and Healing Plants in the Ethnobotany of Native Inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Areas of Brazil

251

(22)

Natalia Hanazaki

Nivaldo Peroni

Alpina Begossi

Introduction

251

(2)

Study Site and Methods

253

(3)

Results and Discussion

256

(7)

Conclusions

263

(1)

Appendix

263

(10)

Food Medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department)

273

(24)

Ina Vandebroek

Sabino Sanca

Introduction

273

(1)

Study Area

274

(1)

Ethnographic Data

275

(1)

Methodology

276

(1)

Results and Discussion

277

(17)

Conclusion

294

(3)

Gathering of Wild Plant Foods with Medicinal Use in a Mapuche Community of Northwest Patagonia

297

(26)

Ana H. Ladio

Introduction

297

(4)

Study Area

301

(1)

Methods

302

(3)

Results

305

(10)

Discussion

315

(8)

Dietary and Medicinal Use of Traditional Herbs Among the Luo of Western Kenya

323

(22)

Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa

Jens Aagaard-Hansen

Introduction

323

(3)

Materials and Methods

326

(2)

Results

328

(10)

Discussion

338

(2)

Conclusion

340

(5)

Ethnomycology in Africa, with Particular Reference to the Rain Forest Zone of South Cameroon

345

(12)

Thomas W. Kuyper

Introduction

345

(1)

Mycophilia versus Mycophobia

346

(1)

Overview of Mushroom Use in Africa

347

(2)

Mushroom Knowledge and Utilization by Bantu and Bagyeli in South Cameroon

349

(4)

Mushrooms: Meat of the Poor

353

(4)

Aspects of Food Medicine and Ethnopharmacology in Morocco

357

(26)

Mohamed Eddouks

Introduction

357

(1)

Food Medicine

358

(10)

Phytotherapy

368

(8)

Conclusions

376

(7)

Index

383

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