Eating and Healing Traditional Food As Medicine

• About the Editors
  
• Contributors
  
• Copyright Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction (Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimar Price)
  
• Asia
  
• Europe
  
• North America
  
• The Caribbean
  
• South America
  
• Africa
  
• Chapter 1. Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork (Louis E. Grivetti)
  
• Introduction
  
• Genesis
  
• Three Decades of Ethnobotanical Research
  
• Reflections and Potential Research Areas
  
• Coda
  
• Chapter 2. Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology (Patrick L. Owen)
  
• Introduction
  
• Adaptations to Altitude
  
• Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants
  
• Tibetan High-Altitude Food Systems
  
• Tibetan Medicine
  
• Summary
  
• Chapter 3. Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Function and Medicinal, and Social Roles of Women (Lisa Leimar Price)
  
• Introduction
  
• Wild Plant Foods in the Farming Environment
  
• Women’s Roles, Women’s Work, and Women’s Knowledge
  
• Consumption and Nutrition
  
• Overlaps: Medicinal and Functional Food
  
• Medicinal and Functional Food Wild Plants of Northeast Thailand
  
• Gathered Food Plants of Northeast Thailand with Medicinal Value
  
• Investigations of Wild Plant Foods As Functional/Medicinal Foods in Thailand
  
• Multiple Use Value, Rarity, and Privatization
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 4. Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania (Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave)
  
• Introduction
  
• Ethnographic Background
  
• Field Methods
  
• Wild Food and Medicinal Plants in Lucania
  
• Pharmacology of Wild Functional Foods Consumed in Southern Italy
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 5. Digestive Beverages As a Medicinal Food in a Cattle-Farming Community in Northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria) (Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Elia San Miguel, and Ramón Morales)
  
• Introduction
  
• Changes in Food and Health Habits and Conditions
  
• Medicinal Food: Digestive Beverages
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 6. “The Forest and the Seaweed”: Gitga’at Seaweed, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Community Survival (Nancy J. Turner and Helen Clifton)
  
• Introduction
  
• Seaweed Use Worldwide
  
• Gitga’at Seaweed Use
  
• The Forest and the Seaweed
  
• Back Home in Hartley Bay
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 7. Medicinal Herb Quality in the United States: Bridging Perspectives with Chinese Medical Theory (Craig A. Hassel, Christopher A. Hafner, Renne Soberg, and Jeff Adelmann)
  
• Context from a Biomedical Perspective
  
• Context from a Chinese Medical Theory Perspective
  
• Dilemma of “Integrating” Two Divergent Epistemologies
  
• Founding a Medicinal Herb Network
  
• Chapter 8. Balancing the System: Humoral Medicine and Food in the Commonwealth of Dominica (Marsha B. Quinlan and Robert J. Quinlan)
  
• Introduction
  
• Setting
  
• Methods
  
• Results and Discussion
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 9. Medicinal Foods in Cuba: Promoting Health in the Household (Gabriele Volpato
  and Daimy Godinez)
  
• Introduction
  
• Results and Discussion
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 10. Healthy Fish: Medicinal and Recommended Species in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest Coast (Brazil) (Alpina Begossi, Natalia Hanazaki, and Rossano M. Ramos)
  
• Introduction
  
• Methods
  
• Results and Discussion
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 11. Edible and Healing Plants in the Ethnobotany of Native Inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Areas of Brazil (Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni, and Alpina Begossi)
  
• Introduction
  
• Study Site and Methods
  
• Results and Discussion
  
• Conclusions
  
• Appendix
  
• Chapter 12. Food Medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department) (Ina Vandebroek and Sabino Sanca)
  
• Introduction
  
• Study Area
  
• Ethnographic Data
  
• Methodology
  
• Results and Discussion
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 13. Gathering of Wild Plant Foods with Medicinal Use in a Mapuche Community of Northwest Patagonia (Ana H. Ladio)
  
• Introduction
  
• Study Area
  
• Methods
  
• Results
  
• Discussion
  
• Chapter 14. Dietary and Medicinal Use of Traditional Herbs Among the Luo of Western Kenya (Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa and Jens Aagaard-Hansen)
  
• Introduction
  
• Materials and Methods
  
• Results
  
• Discussion
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 15. Ethnomycology in Africa, with Particular Reference to the Rain Forest Zone of South Cameroon (Thomas W. Kuyper)
  
• Introduction
  
• Mycophilia versus Mycophobia
  
• Overview of Mushroom Use in Africa
  
• Mushroom Knowledge and Utilization by Bantu and Bagyeli in South Cameroon
  
• Mushrooms: Meat of the Poor
  
• Chapter 16. Aspects of Food Medicine and Ethnopharmacology in Morocco (Mohamed Eddouks)
  
• Introduction
  
• Food Medicine
  
• Phytotherapy
  
• Conclusions
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

Biography

Andrea Pieroni, PhD, is an ethnobotanist/pharmacognosist and Lecturer in Pharmacognosy at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He is also part-time associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of a European Union-funded research project dealing with a circumMediterranean ethnobotanical study on wild and neglected plants for food and medicine. Lisa Leimar Price, PhD, is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow for Social Scientists in Agriculture, a Ford Foundation Fellow, and a Fulbright Fellow. Prior to joining Wageningen University, she was a senior scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.