Medicianl Plants of the Holy Land is a comperhensive copenduim of medicianl plants in Israel - mostly wild, some culitvated, and all of compelling interest to those visiting in Israel, to pepole already Living in the Holy Land, and to whomever may wish to learn more about the fascinating wisdom of it´s traditional practices. The book contains an extensive survery of medicinal plants of the Holy land. Over a hundred healers from various parts of Israel were interviewed in gathering the information for this survey. including Moslem and Christian Arabs, Cherkassians and Druze. In addition, an in-depth review was conducted of ethnic and traditional literature of Israel as well as sources from around the world - inclunding China, India, Africa and the western world. Accompanying the medicinal information are illustrations of each plant for easy identifictation, a breif botanical dwscruption, uses in folk and modern medicine and some details of its active components. A set of tables and indexes is also included, making this a pawerful refernce book for both everyday use and academic resarch. The authors - the late Prof. Dan Palevitch and Prof. Zohara Yaniv (both of the Agricultural Resarcah Organization of Israel) - have been conducting research of medicianl plants for years and are conidered experts on this subject. II 385