Chiej, Roberto. The Macdonald Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants. Sylvia Mulcahy, trans. London: MacDonald, 1984. ISBN 0-356-10541-5, ISBN 0356105423. Covers plants growing in Europe. Also gives other interesting information on the plants. Good photographs.
Huxley, Anthony, ed. The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. London: MacMillan Press, 1992. ISBN 0-333-47494-5. Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed.
Michael J. Dobner, Stefan Schwaiger, Ilse H. Jenewein, Hermann Stuppner, Antibacterial activity of Leontopodium alpinum (Edelweiss). Journal of ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 89 (2003) 301-303. Antimicrobial acitivity of Edelweiss is tested and the results support the ethnomedicinal use of Leontopodium alpinum for the treatment of respiratory and abdominal disorders.
Ester Speroni, Stefan Schwaiger, Pilipp Egger, Anna-Theres Berger, Rinaldo Cervellati, Paolo Govoni, Maria Clelia Guerra, Hermann Stuppner In vivo efficacy of different extracts of Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum Cass.) in animal models. Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005. Extracts of aerial parts and roots of Edelweiss were investigated for their anti-oxidant capacity and their anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects after oral administration. Significant reduction of the inflammatory response was found.
Michael J. Dobner, Silvio Sosa, Stefan Schwaiger, Gianmario Altinier, Roberto Della Loggia, Nicole C.Kaneider, Hermann Stuppner Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Leontopodium alpinum and its Constituents Planta Med 004; 70:502-508 Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart New York, ISSN 0032-0943
Stefan Schwaiger, Rinaldo Cervellati, Christoph Seer, Ernst P. Ellmerer, Nancy About, Isabelle Renimel, Celine Godenir, Patrice Andre, Frank Gafner and Hermann Stuppner Leonotopodic acid - a novel highly substituted glucaric acite derivative from Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum Cassl) and its antioxidative and DNA protecting properties Tetragedron 61 (2005) 4621-4630. Several methods showed pronounced antioxidatve effects of Leontopodic acid.
K. Kertesz, Zs. Balint, Z. Vertesy, G.I. Mark, V. Lousse, J.P. Vigneron, L.P. Biro Photonic crystal type structures of biological origin: Structural and spectral characterization. Current Applied Physics 6 (2006) 252-258. The UV protection mechanism of Edelweiss has been investigated and this article presents fully supportive data that the protection mechanisms are based on coupling by nanostructured, highly selective couplers the harmful UV radiation in propagating modes along fibers containing UV absorbing pigment.
