Urinary diseases and ethnobotany among pastoral nomads in the Middle East.

"AcknowledgementsPart of my research was supported by a grant from the British Council in Tel-Aviv; The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; The Natural Medicine Research Unit at Hadassah Jerusalem; The National Council for Research and Development in the Ministry of Science. To all of these I owe a debt of gratitude. I am indebted to Prof. Clinton Bailey and Dr. Lauren Basson for their reading, advice and comments. Special thanks to Prof. Allan Witztum, Nissim Krispil and Yusef Or, for identifying the plants. Finally, my great thanks go to the pastoral nomadic healers and the many people I have not mentioned individually by name, who kindly provided me with invaluable information, without whose help and kindness I would not have managed to conduct this research."