Fiona MacAllister

Turmeric rhizome (Curcuma longa)

Turmeric is the cured, dried rhizome of Curcuma longa, a sterile cultigen that has been carried by human hands out of tropical South Asia and grown ...This record holds the free sample of the monograph only (its first 5 printed pages). The complete monograph is published by the A...

Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva)

Bearberry leaf is the dried leaf of Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, a trailing evergreen shrub of the boreal and mountain zones of Europe, northern Asia and ...This record holds the free sample of the monograph only (its first 5 printed pages). The complete monograph is published by the...

Buchu (Agathosma betulina)

Buchu is the dried leaf of Agathosma betulina, a low shrub of the Cape fynbos that grows wild nowhere else. It was a Khoisan medicine and ceremonial ...This record holds the free sample of the monograph only (its first 5 printed pages). The complete monograph is published by the...

Barberry (Berberis vulgaris)

Barberry bark is the dried bark of the root, and sometimes of the stem, of the common or European barberry, a spiny deciduous shrub native from Europe ...This record holds the free sample of the monograph only (its first 5 printed pages). The complete monograph is published by th...

Arnica

Arnica flower is the dried flower-head of Arnica montana, a perennial daisy of acid, nutrient-poor mountain grassland from Portugal and Spain to ...This record holds the free sample of the monograph only (its first 5 printed pages). The complete monograph is published by the Aust...

Albizia bark

Albizia bark is the dried stem bark of Albizia lebbeck, a deciduous legume tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar and now planted and ...This record holds the free sample of the monograph only (its first 5 printed pages). The complete monograph is published by the Aus...

Rosary Pea (Abrus precatorius): Pretty Seed, Deadly Protein — AIP Monograph No. 1

Rosary pea, crab's eye (Abrus precatorius): what abrin does, the poisonings on record, how to tell the seed from look-alikes, and Australian law. Contributors: Dr Fiona MacAllister — Botanical verification and field photographs Dr Eleanor Whitcombe — Clinical toxicology review Je...

Rosary Pea (Abrus precatorius): Pretty Seed, Deadly Protein — AIP Monograph No. 1

Rosary pea, crab's eye (Abrus precatorius): what abrin does, the poisonings on record, how to tell the seed from look-alikes, and Australian law. Contributors: Dr Fiona MacAllister — Botanical verification and field photographs Dr Eleanor Whitcombe — Clinical toxicology review Je...