Medicinal plants in Australia, Volume 3: plants, potions and poisons.
Williams C.
: 472 pp.
Abstract : This volume has an introduction 'Toxic plants - friends or foes?', followed by the chapters: (1) Tales of misadventure; (2) The art of detoxification: refining toxic plants; (3) Convolvulaceae: medicinal bush foods;(4) Culinary curiosities: psychotic potatoes and tasty tomatoes; (5) Aroids: irritant poisons; (6)Caustics and corrosives; (7) Foaming fish poisons; (8) Drugs from ichthyotoxins; (9) Poisonous Pteridophyta; (10) Cycads: prehistoric survivors; (11) Neurotoxins: plants of perilous consequence.