Edible medicines : an ethnopharmacology of food / Nina L. Etkin.

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2006], ©2006.

301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction -- Food in the history of biomedicine -- Spices : the pharmacology of the exotic -- Fermented foods and beverages -- The lives of social plants -- Medicinal qualities of animal foods -- Health in the marketplace : complementary and alternative medicine, functional foods, and more -- Appendix: Some common spices.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-281) and indexes.