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Rainforest Remedies: 100 Healing Herbs of Belize | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rosita Arvigo, Michael Balick
Creator: Laura Evans
Publisher: Lotus Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 211303
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0914955136
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.32097282
EAN: 9780914955139
ASIN: 0914955136
Publication Date: 1993
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Product Description
The work of Rosita Arvigo and Michael Balick to bring the knowledge of the Mayan healers to the Western reader deserves due credit. This revised and enlarged second edition includes much additional information about the major herbs in the Mayan pharmacopoeia. Their work proves that the rainforest has more value to mankind alive than cut down!
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user friendly accurate guide June 2, 2000
christina orr (Playa Chiquita Talamanca de Limon, Costa Rica)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Being a student of rainforest medicinal plants myself, I found this book one of the best, published or unpublished, to-date. The drawings are excellent, making field identification easy. The presentation of both the common and scientific names of plants is invaluable. I found it interesting that the Carribean people of Belize and the Carribean people of Costa Rica (where I am) use the same names and uses for many of the medicinal plants. This book is a wealth of information for such a small price, not to mention, motivation for further inquiry. Thank You!
A useful field book. July 14, 2005
jbhalper (crystal lake, illinois United States)
Not the best field-guide ever, but a very competent, useful, well-compiled book overall. Drawings are useful, though could use more detail or photos in some cases. Descriptions are useful in identification.
The shining point of this book is in the details after the plant information. Uses, both local and western are given with information that would point you in the direction of further inquiries. Common and binomial names are given, making it even more useful for cross-referencing these plants.
An excellent ethnobotanic book.
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