Therapeutics

"History of Botany as Ethnobotany. Proposals toward a new approach", in Maria Lelia Pochettino, Ana H. Ladio, Patricia M. Arenas (edss), Traditions and Transformations in Ethnobotany/Tradiciones y Transformaciones en Etnobotanica - Proceedings of the ICEB 2009, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina: CYTED - Programa Iberoamericano Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo, 2010, pp. 55-63.
Antonino Pollio, Antonino De Natale, Emanuela Appetiti, Gianni Aliotta & Alain Touwaide, "Continuity and Change in the Mediterranean Medical Tradition: Ruta spp. (rutaceae) in Hippocratic Medicine and Present Practices", Journal of Ethnopharmacology 166 (2008), pp. 469-482.
Peter Dendle & Alain Touwaide (eds.), Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Medieval Studies Conference at The Pennsylvania State University. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008, 241 p. Includes: (pp. 1-13) Alain Touwaide & Peter Dendle, "Introduction"; (pp. 15-28) Alain Touwaide, "The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and the West"; and (pp. 72-100) Alain Touwaide, "The Jujube Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodology of Textual Archeobotany". Other texts by Maria Amalia D’Aronco (I), Peter Dendle (USA), Expiración Garcia Sanchez (SP), Peter Murray Jones (UK), George Keiser (USA), Deirdre Larkin (USA), Marijan Osborn (USA), Philip. G. Rusche (USA), Terence Sculy (USA), Alain Touwaide (USA), & Linda E. Voigts (USA).
"Medicinal Plants", in Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (eds.), Brill’s New Pauly. Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, vol. 8. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006, cols. 558-568.
Gianni Aliotta, Natale G. De Santo, Antonino Pollio, Joseph Sepe & Alain Touwaide, "The diuretic use of Scilla from Dioscorides to the end of the 18th century", in Natale G. De Santo, Luigi Iorio, Spyros G. Marketos, Shaul G. Massry & Garabed Eknoyan (eds.), The History of Nephrology, New Series 1. Milan: Wichtig, 2004, pp. 130-135.
Alain Touwaide, Natale G. De Santo, Guido Bellinghieri & Vincenzo Savica, Healing Renal Diseases in antiquity. Plants from Dioscorides’ De materia medica with illustrations from Greek and Arabic Manuscripts [A.D. 512 - 15th cent.]. Cosenza: EdBios, 2000, 198 p., 176 col. ill. (2nd edition: Healing Kidney Diseases in Antiquity. Plants from Dioscorides’ De materia medica with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic Manuscripts (A.D. 512 - 15th century). Cosenza: Editoriale Bios, 2003, 198 p., 176 col. ill.).
"Pharmacological Therapy", in Thanos A. Diamantopoulos (ed.), History of Greek Nephrology. Athens: Papazes Publishers, 2000, pp. 377-398.
Gianni Aliotta, Natale G. De Santo, Daniele Piomelli, Antonino Pollio & Alain Touwaide, "Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Urogenital Tract Pathologies According to Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica", in Acts of the International Congress on the History of Nephrology, Napoli-Kos, October 1996 (Special issue of American Journal of Nephrology, 17). Basel: Karger, 1997, pp. 241-247.
"Dietetics between Medicine and Culture in the First Century A.D. A Survey from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica", in Natale G. De Santo & Paolo Marotta (eds.), Contributions for the History of Nutrition (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Seminari di Scienze, Nuova Serie 11). Naples: La Città del Sole, 1996, pp. 41-85.
"La materia medica urologica da Bisanzio a Bagdad", in S. Marandola & Sergio Musitelli (eds.), 1st International Congress "History, Knowledge and Quality of Life in Urology". Fiuggi, 8-11th October 1992, Proceedings (Seminari Pavesi di Urologia, Anno V [1992-1993], Supplemento). Pavia: L. Ponzio Editore, 1993, pp. 155-158.