The Yucatan Peninsula possesses a unique climate, geology, landscape, and biota that
includes a distinct flora of over 2300 species; of these, close to 800 plants are used in what …

Ecuador owns many high quantity and wealthy ecosystems that contain an elevated
biodiversity in flora and fauna. The use of native medicinal plants has been maintained by at …

As part of an ethnopharmacological field study 48 medicinal plants were evaluated using
several biological assays with the goal to obtain information on the pharmacological effects …

Interest in natural products as a source for innovation in drug discovery and agrochemicals
is still growing worldwide. Natural products, whose immense diversity has been appreciated …

The use of medicinal plants played an important role in the lives of the Ancient Maya. Also
today, more than 450 years after the conquest of the New World, medicinal plants are an …

A multidisciplinary and international team of scientists was assembled in the early 1990s to
conduct an ethnobotanical study of plants used by the Aguaruna people of the Peruvian …

Mexican ethnobotanical documents from the XVI century have inspired the search of plant
bioactive compounds. These treatises were written by Native American and Spaniard …

Natural products have played a significant role in drug discovery and development
especially for agents against cancer and infectious disease. An analysis of new and …

The objective of this book chapter is to provide consolidated and updated scientific
information about the medicinal plants of the Peruvian Amazon, which has a great richness …

Herbal medicines are an integral element of alternative medical care in Mexico, and the best
testimony to their efficacy and cultural value is their persistence in contemporary Mexican …