Preface vii
About the editor ix
Contributors x
1 Introduction to traditional medicine 1
Steven Kayne
2 Traditional European folk medicine 25
Owen Davies
3 Aboriginal/traditional medicine in North America:
a practical approach for practitioners 44
John K Crellin
4 Traditional medicine used by ethnic groups in the
Colombian Amazon tropical forest, South America 65
Blanca Margarita Vargas de Corredor and
Ann Mitchell (Simpson)
5 Traditional medical practice in Africa 82
Gillian Scott
6 Traditional Chinese medicine 119
Steven Kayne and Tony Booker
7 Indian ayurvedic medicine 195
Steven Kayne
8 Japanese kampo medicine 225
Haruki Yamada