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LC Science Tracer Bullet Series
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MEDICINAL PLANTS
  Compiled by Judith Robinson and Constance Carter
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      Science Reference Section
Science and Technology Division Library of Congress
10 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.  20540-5581
TB 91-8                                        May 1991
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SCOPE:  The study of medical botany is taking on new significance as the
world's rain
forests are destroyed.  Tropical plants contain an enormous variety of
chemicals of potential benefit to modern medicine.  Major universities,
pharmaceutical firms, and government agencies, including the National
Institutes of Health, are greatly expanding their programs in natural
products research in hopes of finding new medicines for a variety of ills,

including cancer, diabetes, and diseases of the immune system.  Teams of
plant collectors, chemists, and ethnobotanists have been dispatched to
tropical regions to collect new species and to study the folklore of
medicinal plants from local healers and those with knowledge of indigenous

plants.  The ethnobotanical information that these individuals can supply
helps narrow the search for plants with known pharmacological activity.
This compilation, an update of two earlier Tracer Bullets (TB 72-19 and TB

81-2), provides references to published materials on plants containing
substances of medicinal value.  Publications issued since 1980, as well as

those that librarians and researchers have found particularly useful in
their
work over the years, are emphasized.  More attention has been given to the

medicinal plants used by Native Americans and to titles describing plants
in
different geographical areas than was done in earlier compilations.  This
Tracer Bullet has been compiled to assist individuals in locating
materials
about medicinal plants in the collections of the Library of Congress and
to
provide suggestions for further study.  Not intended to be a comprehensive

bibliography, this guide is designed--as the name of the series
implies--to
put the reader "on target."
BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS
* Available in reference collection, Science Reading Room
Guthrie, D.  Plants as remedies: the debt of medicine to botany.  In
Botanical
Society of Edinburgh.  Transactions, v. 39, no. 2, 1961: 184-195.
QK1.B4
and Pamphlet box*
Farnsworth, Norman R.  New medicines from plants: the quest to obtain
useful
drugs from plants is being renewed, and not
a moment too soon.  World & I, v. 3, Sept. 1988: 214221. CB428.W67 and
Pamphlet box*
Plotkin, Mark J.  The healing forest: the search for new jungle plants.
Futurist,
v. 24, Jan./Feb. 1990: 9-14.
CB158.F88 and Pamphlet box*
SUBJECT HEADINGS used by the Library of Congress, under which books on
medicinal
plants can be located, include the following:
  MATERIA MEDICA, VEGETABLE (Highly relevant)
  MEDICINAL PLANTS (Highly relevant)
BOTANY, MEDICAL (Relevant)
HERBAL TEAS (Relevant) HERBS--THERAPEUTIC USE (Relevant)
See also names of specific herbs, plants, substances, etc., e.g., COMFREY,
GARLIC,
GINSENG, QUININE
  PHARMACOGNOSY (Relevant)
  BOTANICAL DRUG INDUSTRY (Related)
  HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS (Related)
  HERBAL COSMETICS (Related)
  PSYCHOTROPIC PLANTS (Related)
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY CONSERVATION (More general) BOTANY, ECONOMIC
(More general)
  ETHNOBOTANY (More general)
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA--MEDICINE (More general)
  RAIN FOREST ECOLOGY (More general)

BASIC TEXTS
Blackwell, Will H.  Poisonous and medicinal plants.  Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.,
Prentice Hall, c1990.  329 p.
QK100.A1B57 1990* Chapter 5 written by Martha J. Powell.
Buchman, Dian Dincin.  Dian Dincin Buchman's Herbal medicine: the natural
way
to get well and stay well.  New York, Gramercy Pub. Co., 1980, c1979.  310
p.
RS164.B78 1980*
See particularly "Sources for dried botanicals, herb
products, oils": p. 273-279 and "Live plant and seed sources": p. 279-286.
Crellin, J. K., and Jane Philpott.  Herbal medicine past and present.
Durham, N.C.,
Duke University Press, c1990.  2 v.          RS164.B324C74 1990*
 Based in large part on recorded interviews with A. L. Tommie Bass, his
friends, neighbors, and people in his community.
   Bibliography: v. 1, p. 265-323.
Contents: v. 1.  Trying to give ease.--v. 2.  A
  reference guide to medicinal plants.
Der Marderosian, Ara Harold,  and Lawrence E.  Liberti. Natural product
medicine:
a scientific guide to foods, drugs, cosmetics.  Philadelphia, G. F.
Stickley,
c1988. 388 p.    RS160.D47 1988*
Grieve, Maud.  A modern herbal: the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and
economic
properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs, &
trees
with all their modern scientific uses.  With an introd. by the editor,
Mrs. C. F.
Leyel.  New York, Dover Publications, 1971.  2 v.
QK99.A1G72 1971*
   A reprint of the 1931 ed.

Kreig, Margaret B.  Green medicine: the search for plants that heal.
Chicago,
Rand McNally, 1964.  462 p.     QK99.K68*
Bibliography: p. 433-446.
Lewis, Hepworth, and Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis.  Medical botany: plants
affecting
man's health.  New York, Wiley, c1977.  515 p.       RS164.L475*
   Bibliography: p. 456-465.
Morton, Julia Frances.  Major medicinal plants: botany, culture, and uses.

Springfield, Ill., Thomas, c1977.  431 p.        QK99.A1M67*
   Bibliography: p. 383-412.
Van der Zee, Barbara.  Green pharmacy: a history of herbal medicine.  New
York,
Viking Press, 1982, c1981.  379 p.
RM666.H33V36 1982*
   Bibliography: p. 337-347.


SPECIALIZED TITLES
Aikman, Lonnelle.  Nature's healing arts: from folk medicine to modern
drugs.
Prepared by the Special Publications Division.  Washington, National
Geographic Society, c1977. 199 p.         RS164.A36
Andoh, Anthony K.  The science and romance of selected herbs used in
medicine
and religious ceremony.  San Francisco, North Scale Institute, c1986.  324

p.  QK99.A1A54 1986
   Bibliography: p. 318-324.
Carse, Mary.  Herbs of the earth: a self-teaching guide to healing
remedies: using
common North American plants and trees.  Hinesburg, Vt., Upper Access
Publishers, c1989. 238 p.  RM666.H33C367 1989
Coon, Nelson.  Using plants for healing: an American herbal. 2nd ed.
Emmaus, Pa.,
Rodale Press, c1979.  272 p.
RS164.C72 1979*
   Bibliography: p. 239-248.
Davies, Jill.  A garden of miracles: herbal drinks for pleasure, health,
and
beauty.  New York, Beaufort Books, c1985.  144 p.   RM666.H33D38
1985
Duke, James A.  Medicinal plants of the Bible.  Owerri, N.Y., Trado-Medic
Books,
1983.  233 p.  QK99.A1D84 1983
   Bibliography: p. 175-178.
Emboden, William A.  Narcotic plants.  Rev. and enl.   New York,
Macmillan,
c1979.  206 p.   QK99.A1E5 1979
   Bibliography: p. 195-202.
Folk medicine: the art and the science.  Edited by Richard P. Steiner.
Washington, American Chemical Society, c1986. 223 p.
 RS164.F64 1986*
 Examines the medical practices of non-Western cultures in order to
establish a scientific basis for the success of various folk remedies.
Includes material on isolating and identifying specific chemical
components
of plants as well as providing information on the medicinal plants of
various
countries.
 Gibbons, Euell.  Stalking the healthful herbs.  Putney, Vt.,
   A. C. Hood, 1989,  c1966.  301 p.   QK99.U6G53 1989
Reprint.  Originally published in New York by D. McKay, 1966.

Hartwell, Jonathan L.  Plants used against cancer: a survey. Lawrence,
Mass.,
Quarterman Publications, c1982.  710 p. (Bioactive plants, v. 2)
 RC271.H47H37 1982
HsA, Hung-yuan, Yu-pan Chen, and Mei-na Hung.  The chemical constituents
of
oriental herbs.  Los Angeles, Oriental Healing Arts Institute,
c1982-c1985.
2 v.
  RS164.H838 1982* Vol. 1 has
cover title: The Chemical Constituents of
   Oriental Herbal Drugs.
Vol. 2 published at Long Beach, Calif.
    Translation of Han Yao Chih Hua HsAeh Ch'eng Fen.
Kelly, Howard Atwood.  Some American medical botanists commemorated in our

botanical nomenclature.  Troy, N.Y., Southworth Co., 1914.  215 p.
QK26.K4
 "Delivered as a lecture before the Medical Historical Society of Chicago,

1910, and before the University of Nebraska, October 16, 1913."
Magic and medicine of plants.  Pleasantville, N.Y., Reader's Digest
Association,
Inc., c1986.  464 p.
     QK99.A1M325 1986*
New pharmaceuticals derived from plants.  New Haven, Conn., Technology
Management Group, c1988.  1 v.  (various pagings)

HD9675.B682N48 1988
"An assessment of worldwide market opportunities in
plant-derived drugs for cancer, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, and other
conditions."
Schultes, Richard Evans, and Albert Hofmann.  The botany and chemistry of
hallucinogens.  Rev. and enl. 2nd ed. Springfield, Ill., Thomas, c1980.
437 p.
(American lecture series, publication no. 1025)  QK99.A1S37
1980*
    Bibliography: p. 369-409.
Taylor, Norman.  Plant drugs that changed the world.  New York, Dodd,
Mead,
c1965. 275 p.    QK99.T35*
    Bibliography: p. 255-263.
Tyler, Varro E., Lynn R. Brady, and James E. Robbers.
Pharmacognosy.  9th ed.  Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1988. 519 p.
RS160.T94
1988*


SELECTED TITLES REFLECTING DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
 NORTH AMERICA
Bolyard, Judith L.  Medicinal plants and home remedies of Appalachia.
Springfield, Ill., Thomas, c1981.  187 p.
RS164.B63*
Cox, Donald D.  Common flowering plants of the Northeast: their natural
history
and uses.  Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, c1985.  418
p.
    Bibliography: p. 395-398.  QK117.C828 1985*
Moore, Michael.  Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West: a guide
to
identifying, preparing, and using traditional medicinal plants found in
the
deserts and
canyons of the West and Southwest.  Sante Fe, N.M., Museum of New Mexico
Press, 1989.  184 p.    QK99.U6M65 1989
   Bibliography: p. 160-163.
----- Medicinal plants of the mountain West: a guide to the
identification,
preparation, and uses of traditional medicinal plants found in the
mountains,
foothills, and upland areas of the American West.  Sante Fe, N.M., Museum
of
New Mexico Press, c1979.  200 p.    QK99.U6M66 1979
   Bibliography: p. 194-196.
Naegele, Thomas A.  Edible and medicinal plants of the Great Lakes.
Calumet,
Mich., T. A. Naegele Survival Seminars, c1980.  427 p.
 QK99.G73N33
   Bibliography: p. 263-269.
Touchstone, Samuel J.  Herbal and folk medicine of Louisiana and adjacent
states, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas.   Princeton, La.,
Folk-Life
Books, 1983.  175 p.
RS164.T68 1983
Tyler, Varro E.  Hoosier home remedies.  West Lafayette, Ind., Purdue
University
Press, 1985.  212 p.   GR110.I6T95 1985
Bibliography: p. 191-194.
Viereck, Eleanor.  Alaska's wilderness medicines: healthful plants of the
far
north.  Edmonds, Wash., Alaska Northwest Publishing Co., c1987.  107 p.
    QK99.U6V54 1987
   Bibliography: p. 97-102.
Westrich, LoLo.  California herbal remedies.  Houston, Gulf
Publishing Co., Book Division, c1989.  180 p. RM666.H33W445 1989
   Bibliography: p. 164-167.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Ayensu, Edward S.  Medicinal plants of the West Indies. Algonac, Mich.,
Reference Publications, 1981.  282 p.
QK99.W4A94
   Bibliography: p. 212-213.
Morton, Julia Frances.  Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America:
Bahamas to
Yucatan.  Springfield, Ill., Thomas, c1981.  1420 p.
QK99.C315M67*
   Bibliography: p. 1297-1319.
Schultes, Richard Evans, and Robert F. Raffauf.  The healing forest:
medicinal
and toxic plants of the northwest Amazonia.  Portland, Ore., Dioscorides
Press, c1990.  484 p.  (Historical, ethno- & economic botany series, v. 2)

QK99.A47S38 1990*
   Bibliography: p. 475-476.
Seaforth, C. E.  Natural products in Caribbean folk medicine. St.
Augustine,
Trinidad, W.I., University of the West Indies, c1988.  140 p.
RS164.S475 1988
Seaforth, C. E., C. D. Adams, and Y. Sylvester.  A guide to the medicinal
plants of
Trinidad & Tobago.  Rev. version. Tunapuna, Trinidad, W.I., CARIRI,
Caribbean
Industrial Research Institute, 1986.  222 p.    RS164.S473 1986
 Reprint.  Originally published by Commonwealth Secretariat in London,
c1983.
   Bibliography: p. 201-206.


AFRICA, ASIA, AND AUSTRALIA
Bensky, Dan, Andrew Gamble, and Ted J. Kaptchuk, comps. Chinese herbal
medicine: materia medica.  Seattle, Eastland Press, c1986.  723 p.
 RS180.C5B46 1986*
    "Historical bibliography": p. 697-701.
"Translators' bibliography": p. 703-705.
Boulos, Loutfy.  Medicinal plants of North Africa.  Algonac, Mich.,
Reference
Publications, 1983.  286 p.  (Medicinal plants of the world, no. 3)
QK99.A43B68 1983
    Bibliography: p. 210-214.
Caius, Jean Ferdinand.  The medicinal and poisonous plants of India.
Jodhpur,
India, Scientific Publishers, 1986.  528 p.    QK99.I4C35 1986
 "Originally published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History
Society in 24 parts, v. 37 (4), 1935--v. 45 (3), 1944."
Duke, James A., and Edward J. Ayensu.  Medicinal plants of
China.  Algonac, Mich., Reference Publications, 1985.  2 v. (Medicinal
plants of the
world, no. 4)
 QK99.C448D85 1985* Text in
English, Chinese, and Latin.
Kokwaro, J. O.  Medicinal plants of East Africa.  Kampala, Uganda, East
African
Literature Bureau, 1976.  384 p.
RS164.K63
Lassak, E. V., and T. McCarthy.  Australian medicinal plants. North Ryde,
Aus.,
Methuen Australia, 1983.  240 p.
QK99.A8L37 1983
Manandhar, N. P.  Medicinal plants of Nepal Himalaya. Kathmandu, Nepal,
Ratna
Pustak Bhandar, 1980.  85 p.
QK99.N35M36
Oliver-Bever, Bep.  Medicinal plants in tropical West Africa. Cambridge,
Eng.,
New York, Cambridge University Press, 1986.  375 p.    RS164.057
1986
    Bibliography: p. 269-354.
Roberts, Margaret.  Margaret Roberts' book of herbs: the medicinal and
culinary
uses of herbs in South Africa. Bergvlei, South Africa, J. Ball, 1983.  159
p.
RM666.H33R63 1983
Stark, Raymond.  Maori herbal remedies.  New York, Viking Sevenseas,
c1979.
116 p.  DU423.M38S73 1979
MEDICINAL USES OF PLANTS BY NATIVE AMERICANS
Densmore, Frances.  How Indians use wild plants for food, medicine, and
crafts.
New York, Dover, 1974.  116 p.
E99.C6D415 1974
 Reprint of "Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians" from the 44th Annual
report (1926/27) of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology (E51.U55).
Duke, James A.  Handbook of Northeastern Indian medicine. Lincoln, Mass.,
Quarterman, 1986.  212 p.  (Bioactive plants, v. 3)
Not in LC
collections
Bibliography: p. 172-174.
Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte.  Use of plants for the past 500 years.  Aurora,
Ont.,
Breezy Creeks Press, c1979.  510
p.                                      GN560.U6E75 1979* Bibliography: p.
480-501.
Gilmore, Melvin Randolph.  Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri
River
region.  Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1919.  154 p.       E98.B7G4
 Reprinted from the 33rd Annual report (1911/12) of the U.S. Bureau of
American Ethnology (E51.U55).
Hamel, Paul B., and Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey.  Cherokee plants and their
uses: a
400 year history.  Sylva, N.C., Herald Pub. Co., c1975.  65 p.
E99.C5H224
  Bibliography: p. 64-65.
Herrick, James William.  Iroquois medical botany.  Ann Arbor, Mich.,
University
Microfilms, 1977.  1 microfilm reel. 35mm.                     UMI
Microfiche
AAC7732244 MicRR
Collation of the original: 563 p.
  Bibliography: p. 200-209.
Thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at
 Albany, 1977.
 Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts, v. 38A, Feb. 1977: 4912.
Lynas, Lothian.  Medicinal and food plants of the North American Indians:
a
bibliography.  New York, Library of the New York Botanical Garden, 1972.
21
p.   Z1209.2.N67L92*
Moerman, Daniel E.  Geraniums for the Iroquois: a field guide to American
Indian
medicinal plants.  Algonac, Mich., Reference Publications, 1982, c1981.
242
p.
 E98.M4M68 1982
Bibliography: p. 218-221.

----- Medicinal plants of Native America.  Ann Arbor, Museum of
Anthropology,
University of Michigan, 1986.  2 v. (910 p.)  (Research reports in
ethnobotany,
contribution 2) (University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology.  Technical

reports, no. 19)                          E98.B7M64 1986*
Chiefly tables.
  Bibliography: p. 527-534.
Updates American Medical Ethnobotany: a Reference
 Dictionary (Garland 1977).
Scully, Virginia.  A treasury of American Indian herbs: their lore and
their use
for food, drugs, and medicine.  New York, Crown Publishers, 1970.  306 p.

E98.B7S3 1970
  Bibliography: p. 296-302.
Stark, Raymond.  Guide to Indian herbs.  Vancouver, B.C., Blaine, Wash.,
Hancock
House, c1981.  48 p. E98.M4S7 1981
Taylor, Lyda Averill Paz.  Plants used as curatives by certain
southeastern
tribes.  New York, AMS Press, 1978.  88 p.
E98.M4T39 1978
 Reprint of the 1940 ed. published by the Botanical Museum of Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass.
Train, Percy,  James R. Henrichs,  and W. Andrew Archer.  Medicinal uses
of
plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Lawrence, Mass., Quarterman
Publications,
Inc., 1982.  139 p.  (Bioactive plants, v. 1)  E78.N4T7 1982
 "This work is a facsimile reproduction of the revised edition of 1957,
which included a summary of
pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, published as Contributions
Toward a Flora of Nevada, no. 45, a series prepared through the
cooperation
of the National Arboretum and the Plant Introduction Section of the Crops
Research Division under the Agriculture Research Service of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Maryland."
   Bibliography: p. 128-131.
Vogel, Virgil J.  American Indian medicine.  Norman, University of
Oklahoma
Press, 1970.  583 p.  (The Civilization of the American Indian series, 95)
  E98.M4V6 Expanded
version of the author's thesis, University of
  Chicago.
   Bibliography: p. 473-517.
Weiner, Michael A.  Earth medicine--earth food: plant remedies, drugs, and

natural foods of the North American Indians.  1st Ballantine Books ed.,
rev. &
expanded.  New York, Ballantine Books, c1991.  230 p.      E98.M4W4 1991
Bibliography: p. 217-218.
Weslager, C. A.  Magic medicines of the Indians.  Somerset, N.J., Middle
Atlantic
Press, 1973.  161 p.      E98.M4W47
Bibliography: p. 149-151.
Wyman, Leland Clifton, and Stuart Kimball Harris.  Navajo Indian medical
ethnobotany.  New York, AMS Press, 1979.  76 p.   E99.N3W9328
1979
 Reprint of the 1941 ed. published in the University of New Mexico
Bulletin, Anthropological series, v. 3, no. 5, whole no. 366.