Inspiring innovation from tradition

The recent publications of the researchers in the Institute include:

Haiying Y. Li, Xin Huang, Emanuela Appetiti, Constantinos Grivas, "Research on the kidney and hair loss based on ancient Chinese medical literature", Archives of Hellenic Medicine, 2020; 37(S2):S166-S170.

Eric Yarnell, and Alain Touwaide (2019). “Accuracy of Dioscorides,' De materia medica (First Century C.E.), Regarding Diuretic Activity of Plants”, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 25(1), pp. 107–120.

Alain Touwaide and Emanuela Appetiti, “Searching for Chinese Medicinal Plants in Greek Classical Medicine: A First Approach”, Chinese Medicine and Culture 1 (2018), pp. 40-45.

Alain Touwaide and Emanuela Appetiti, “Food and Medicines in the Mediterranean Tradition. A Systematic Analysis of the Earliest Extant Body of Textual Evidence”, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 167 (2015), pp. 11-29.

Alain Touwaide and Emanuela Appetiti, "Knowledge of Eastern materia medica (Indian and Chinese) in pre-modern Mediterranean medical traditions: A study in comparative historical ethnopharmacology", Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 148 (2013), pp. 361-378.

Antonino Pollio, Antonino De Natale, Emanuela Appetiti, Gianni Aliotta, and Alain Touwaide,  “Continuity and Change in the Mediterrranean Medical Tradition: Ruta spp. (Rutaceae) in Hippocratic Medicine and Present Practices”, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 116 (2008): 469–482.

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