Subject: antimicrobial properties of foods/plants

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Poulos)
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 01:32:03 GMT

I am seeking information on the antimicrobial properties of foods
and plants. More specifically I need information concerning folk
medicine in the Mexican state of Yucatan. I believe this falls under
the general category of ethnobotany. Please recommend any books,
journal articles, and/or web sites that you may know of. Thank you.

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From: [email-masked] (HealingPgs)
Date: 9 Oct 1996 03:53:39 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (Andrew Poulos) writes:

>More specifically I need information concerning folk

I'd look for works by Richard Schultes (although he concentrated on the
Amazon).  Michael Moore's Los Remedios deals with the American Southwest,
but does mention the Mexican use of certain native plants and gives the
Spanish name for these plants (very useful).  Earthly Goods by Christopher
Joyce deals with ethnobotanical finds around the world.  It's been a
couple years since I read it, but I think there may be material in it that
you could use.  

For more general works on the properties of plants, there is:
Herbal Drugs & Phytopharmaceuticals, pub. 1994
Drugs of Natural Origin: A Textbook of Pharmacognosy, pub. 1992 (may be
out of print)
The German Commission E Monographs (to be published in English this fall)

Hope this helps.  By the way, I'm noticing a real gapin  the herbal works
on the subject of Mexico and Central America (other than Rose Arvigo's
stuff on Belize).  I'd appreciate information on any titles that deal with
this region.  Please e-mail as I don't check this newsgroup often.

Regards,
Rosemary, Healing Pages Bookstore, Seattle, WA
e-mail: [email-masked]
http://members.aol.com/healingpgs/index.htm

Links to other herb sites at:
http://members.aol.com/healingpgs/other.htm

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From: [email-masked] (Dirk Teunis)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 23:11:17 GMT

{antimicrobial properties of plants}.

Ik know this isn't exactly what your searching for but last week i made the  following observation.

It is the end of summer and a number of plant i have can't survive the cold. To  prevent them from dying i take cuttings at this time. When putting these cutting  in water the water will turn milky due to microbial growt after a few days. But  not with one of the plants here the water stays clear and these's about a 100%  rooting in this species. 

When i took this water and used it for another plant species it remained clear  (unlike a controle from the second species).

Name of the first species : Brugmansia (unsure about the species, but i suspect  it's versicolor).

deGroeten
Dirk [*]

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From: [email-masked] (Kala Ladenheim)
Date: 9 Oct 1996 19:49:04 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
>>the general category of ethnobotany. Please recommend any books,
I have a copy of "Huastec Mayan Ethnobotany" by Janis B. Alcorn-- 
University of Texas Press, Austin 1984,
ISBN 0-292-71543-9

This might be useful?

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Kala Ladenheim
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Center for Health Outcomes Improvement Research (CHOIR)
The George Washington University 
1001 22nd Street NW
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Washington, DC 20037 
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From: [email-masked] (Mike Gadberry)
Date: 11 Oct 1996 20:41:13 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, 
[email-masked] says...
>journal articles, and/or web sites that you may know of. Thank you.

Andrew,

	You may want to try the ethnobotany database at the National 
Agricultural Library.  Spend a minute or two reading the help info,the database 
isn't the most user friendly in the world.

	http://probe.nal.usda.gov:8300/

Ciao,

Mike G. <[email-masked]>