Herbal Medicine in Yemen

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).

“…an important contribution to the study of traditional plant-based medicine, broadly embedded in its fascinating cultural, religious, and historical contexts.”Jillian M. De Gezelle in Economic Botany XX(X) 2013.“Bringing together almost every scholar who has worked on traditional herbal medicine in Yemen, this book is a summation of decades of research and will be the one comprehensive treatment of the subject for years to come.”Werner Daum in Bulletin of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) 18 (2013)."... die Lektüre dieser interdisziplinären Beiträge ist ein Gewinn."Dr. Armin Schopen in Jemen-Report 45.1-2 (2014).

• Foreword, Sheikh A. BawazirAcknowledgementsA note on transliteration conventionList of illustrations and mapsIntroduction: Hanne Schönig and Ingrid HehmeyerChapter One: The validity of traditional medicine as an effective tool in issues of human health, Ingrid HehmeyerChapter Two: Eastern Mediterranean pharmacology and India trade as a background for Yemeni medieval medicinal plants, Efraim LevChapter Three: Magic and medicine in a thirteenth-century treatise on the science of the stars, Petra G. SchmidlChapter Four: Qāt and traditional healing in Yemen, Daniel Martin VariscoChapter Five: The aloe and the frankincense tree in southern Arabia: Different approaches to their use, Miranda MorrisChapter Six: Healing through medicinal plants: Old Yemenite therapeutic traditions and their application in Jerusalem today, Ester Muchawsky-SchnapperChapter Seven: Honey, coffee, and tea in cultural practices of Ḥaḍramawt, Mikhail RodionovChapter Eight: From medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal drugs, Jacques FleurentinChapter 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 JetschkeChapter Ten: A pharmacist’s view of the potential value to modern medicine of plants and fungi used by traditional medicine in Yemen, Ulrike LindequistChapter Eleven: Health issues in the mountains of Yemen: Healing practices as part of farmers’ traditional knowledge, Amin Al-Hakimi, Anhar Ya’ni, and Frédéric PelatAbout the authorsIndex of plants and fungiIndex of names Index of topics and keywords