Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the Middle-East

- Forward
Chapter 1: Medicinal Plants in ancient traditions; Z. Yaniv
Chapter 2: Wild Edible Plants in Israel Tradition versus Cultivation; U. Mayer-Chissick
Chapter 3: Ethnobotany among Bedouin tribes in the Middle-East; A .Abu-Rabia
Chapter 4: Selected Aromatic-Medicinal Plants, Endemic to the Middle-East; N. Dudai and Z. Yaniv
Chapter 5: Capparis spinosa, The Plant on the Wall; M. Faran
Chapter 6: Apharsemon, Myrrh and Olibanum: Ancient Medical Plants; S. Ben-Yehoshua and L.O. Hanus
Chapter 7: Sarcopoterium spinosum; Z. Henkin, T. Rosenzweig and Z. Yaniv Bachrach
Chapter 8: Traditional uses of Pistacia lentiscus in Veterinary and Human Medicine; S. Landau, H. Muklada, A. Marcovics and H. Azaizeh
Chapter 9: Farming Amphetamines: Khat (Catha edulis Forsk) a Traditional Plant with Psychoactive and Medicinal Properties; S. Ben Shabat, P. Goloubinoff, N. Dudai and E. Lewinsohn
Chapter 10: Citron Cultivation, Production and Uses in the Mediterranean Region; J. D. Klein
Chapter 11: Therapeutic Use of Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.); G. Schiller
Chapter 12: Pomegranate: Aspects Concerning Dynamics of Health Beneficial Phytochemicals and Therapeutic Properties; D. Holland and I. Bar-Yaacov
Chapter 13: Juniperus phoenicea from Jordan; M. S. Abu-Darwish, C. Cabral and L. Salgueiro
Chapter 14: Myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) A Native Mediterranean and Cultured Crop Species; S. Zilkah and E. E. Goldschdmidt
Chapter 15: Eruca sativa: A Tasty Herb Salad with Health Promoting Properties; O. Barazani and J. Ziffer-Berger
Chapter 16: Rose Oil (Rosa damascena); K.H. Can Baser and N. Arslan
Chapter 17: Opium Poppy (papaver somniferum); K.H. Can Baser and N. Arslan

Akos Mathe, Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, West-Hungarian University Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Hungary He is the Chair of the section of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the International Society of Horticulture Science. He is Vice President of the International Council of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (member of IUBS) and President of the Hungarian Horticultural Society. He is former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungaric and presently editor of ICMAP Newsletter, member of the boar of editors of Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Haworth, Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. His main research areas include botany and ecophysiology of medicinal and aromatic plants, diversification of horticultural production. Zohara Yaniv, is Prof. Emeritus at the Agricultural Research Organization. She Received her PhD from Columbia University in New York (1967) and worked for several years as a researcher at the Institute for Plant Research Boyce Thompson Center at Yonkers, NY, on topics related to biochemical control of parasite relations -host. Dr. Yaniv is an international expert on medicinal plants. Particularly interested in folk medicine related, conventional and renewable ancient cultures in the modern world. Her research work focused on ethnic botanical research of the Middle East and Israel. It also dealt with the study of vegetable oil health value crops, such as a rich source of vegetable oil omega-3 fatty acids. Her works are documented in numerous international publications. Dr. Yaniv is also the co-editor of few books: - Medicinal plants of Israel (1991 - in Hebrew, 2000 - English) - Herbs - Complete Guide to medicinal plants with drugs to disease incidence (1995). - Handbook of Medicinal Plants (2005).