Herbal Reference Series, Six Volume Set

by James A. Duke

This handbook series provides detailed information on herbs and other species of ecological, medicinal, and economic, and other importance. For each book, the author provides the common and scientific names of the different plants discussed and describes the habitat in which particular plants thrive. Where applicable, the medicinal uses of species are highlighted, along with other uses of significance. To aid in accessing information, the authors lists the entries alphabetically, and they address the ecological significance of the different species. These books are tremendously useful to food producers, food technologists, chemists, pharmacognosists, farmers, and those in research and development of food and medicinal plants.

1069 pages, Hardcover

First published November 17, 2000

About the author

Dr. James A. Duke, PhD, Ethnobotanist, PhD in Botany (UNC, Chapel Hill; Phi Beta Kappa; Distinguished Alumnus), served 3 years with Missouri Botanical Garden, 7 years with Battelle Memorial Institute in Panama, Colombia and Columbus Ohio, as an ecologist; and 27 years as economic botanist, with USDA in Beltsville, Md, On Sept. 30, 1995, he retired from the USDA. Before retiring, Dr. Duke brought his ethnobotanical and phytochemical database online at USDA (http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/). It is now, in Duke’s retirement, one of the most frequently consulted areas of the USDA website. Duke serves as distinguished herbal lecturer with the Tai Sophia Healing Institute, Laurel MD. He has written more than 30 books on medicinal plants.