The last decades have recorded an increase of plant-based drug discovery processes.
Indeed, natural products possess a superior chemical diversity as compared to synthetic …

AIM OF THE STUDY: Written records of oral medical traditions have had significant impact
on the development of medicine and the pharmacopoeias. Modern ethnobotanical studies in …

Background Worldwide mountain regions are recognized as hotspots of
ethnopharmacologically relevant species diversity. In South Tyrol (Southern Alps, Italy), and …

Chemistry of natural organic products regards studies of molecular structural characters
devoted to the identification of new molecular architectures and searching new compounds …

Human populations in various regions across the world exploit the medicinal properties of
plants to treat a wide variety of diseases. Areas with both high rates of endemic taxa and …

The Maltese archipelago is composed of a small number of islands with a total surface area
of approximately 457 km2. Albeit this small size the Maltese islands host a vast number of …

Ethnopharmacological relevance This paper illustrates the results of an ethnobotanical
study carried out in the Vesuvio National Park (VNP)(Campania, Southern Italy). It describes …

Prance once defined Ethnobotany as an interdisciplinary Science combining Anthropology
and Botany [1]. However, it can also involve Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, Nutrition, and …

Local food plants are widely used in the Mediterranean and most of these are also
acclaimed for having important health benefits. It is difficult to define the exact borderlines …

AIM OF STUDY: Within the scope of the European project RUBIA (ICA3-2002-10023),
research has been performed on the traditional use and handling of plant species in several …