Herbal Medicine in Yemen
Traditional Knowledge and Practice, and Their Value for Today's World
Edited by Ingrid Hehmeyer, Ryerson University, and Hanne Schönig, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, with the collaboration of Anne Regourd, Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Biographical note
Dr. Ingrid Hehmeyer, an Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada), received her Doctorate in Agriculture in 1988 and a Master of Science (equiv.) in Pharmacy in 1990, both from the University of Bonn.
Anne Regourd, Ph.D. in Philosophy (1987), teaches at the University of Paris 4-Sorbonne, and is Associee at the CNRS. She published on Divinatory and Magic practices in Mediaeval Islam and contemporary Yemen (Religious Anthropology, History of Sciences) and in Arabic Philology.
Dr. Hanne Schönig, Ph.D. (1984) in Oriental Languages and Islamic Studies, is a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She has published on Yemeni material culture including Schminken, Düfte und Räucherwerk der Jemenitinnen (Ergon, 2002).
Anne Regourd, Ph.D. in Philosophy (1987), teaches at the University of Paris 4-Sorbonne, and is Associee at the CNRS. She published on Divinatory and Magic practices in Mediaeval Islam and contemporary Yemen (Religious Anthropology, History of Sciences) and in Arabic Philology.
Dr. Hanne Schönig, Ph.D. (1984) in Oriental Languages and Islamic Studies, is a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She has published on Yemeni material culture including Schminken, Düfte und Räucherwerk der Jemenitinnen (Ergon, 2002).
Readership
Academic readers from various disciplinary fields, such as philology, history of medicine, Middle Eastern Studies, area studies (Yemen: medieval and contemporary, Jewish Yemen), anthropology, ethnography, agronomy, botany, pharmacy, pharmacology and ecology.
Table of contents
Foreword, Sheikh A. Bawazir
Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration convention
List of illustrations and maps
Introduction: Hanne Schönig and Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter One: The validity of traditional medicine as an effective tool in issues of human health, Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter Two: Eastern Mediterranean pharmacology and India trade as a background for Yemeni medieval medicinal plants, Efraim Lev
Chapter Three: Magic and medicine in a thirteenth-century treatise on the science of the stars, Petra G. Schmidl
Chapter Four: Qāt and traditional healing in Yemen, Daniel Martin Varisco
Chapter Five: The aloe and the frankincense tree in southern Arabia: Different approaches to their use, Miranda Morris
Chapter Six: Healing through medicinal plants: Old Yemenite therapeutic traditions and their application in Jerusalem today, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
Chapter Seven : Honey, coffee, and tea in cultural practices of Ḥaḍramawt, Mikhail Rodionov
Chapter Eight: From medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal drugs, Jacques Fleurentin
Chapter Nine: The miraculous plant ḥalqa (Cyphostemma digitatum): From grandmother’s kitchen in Yemen’s south-western highlands to modern medicinal and culinary applications, Mohammed Al-Duais and Gottfried Jetschke
Chapter Ten: A pharmacist’s view of the potential value to modern medicine of plants and fungi used by traditional medicine in Yemen, Ulrike Lindequist
Chapter Eleven: Health issues in the mountains of Yemen: Healing practices as part of farmers’ traditional knowledge, Amin Al-Hakimi, Anhar Ya’ni, and Frédéric Pelat
About the authors
Index of plants and fungi
Index of names
Index of topics and keywords
Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration convention
List of illustrations and maps
Introduction: Hanne Schönig and Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter One: The validity of traditional medicine as an effective tool in issues of human health, Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter Two: Eastern Mediterranean pharmacology and India trade as a background for Yemeni medieval medicinal plants, Efraim Lev
Chapter Three: Magic and medicine in a thirteenth-century treatise on the science of the stars, Petra G. Schmidl
Chapter Four: Qāt and traditional healing in Yemen, Daniel Martin Varisco
Chapter Five: The aloe and the frankincense tree in southern Arabia: Different approaches to their use, Miranda Morris
Chapter Six: Healing through medicinal plants: Old Yemenite therapeutic traditions and their application in Jerusalem today, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
Chapter Seven : Honey, coffee, and tea in cultural practices of Ḥaḍramawt, Mikhail Rodionov
Chapter Eight: From medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal drugs, Jacques Fleurentin
Chapter Nine: The miraculous plant ḥalqa (Cyphostemma digitatum): From grandmother’s kitchen in Yemen’s south-western highlands to modern medicinal and culinary applications, Mohammed Al-Duais and Gottfried Jetschke
Chapter Ten: A pharmacist’s view of the potential value to modern medicine of plants and fungi used by traditional medicine in Yemen, Ulrike Lindequist
Chapter Eleven: Health issues in the mountains of Yemen: Healing practices as part of farmers’ traditional knowledge, Amin Al-Hakimi, Anhar Ya’ni, and Frédéric Pelat
About the authors
Index of plants and fungi
Index of names
Index of topics and keywords
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