The plants belonging to the genus Vicia are of great interest as a source of many bioactive
compounds and micronutrients. A snapshot of their cultivation, habitat, main components …

Helichrysum arenarium (L.) Moench, belonging to the Asteraceae family, is known in
traditional medicine for its diuretic, choleretic, and anti-inflammatory properties. This review …

Abstract The Use of “Use Value”: Quantifying Importance in Ethnobotany. Use value (UV) is
an index widely used to quantify the relative importance of useful plants. It combines the …

Simple Summary To understand how healing practices change over time, it is important to
recognize the role and extent of external factors affecting the diversity of uses. Our …

The historical use of medicinal plants is of special interest because the use of plants for
healing is a rapidly changing, highly culture-specific and often need-specific practice, which …

Cross-border and cross-cultural ethnomedicine are novel ways to address the evolution of
local ecological knowledge. As is widely acknowledged, ethnomedicinal knowledge is not …

Diversity of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) created on the edges of culture is the key
to the sustainability and resilience of humankind. We recorded wild food TEK among seven …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Ethnoveterinary medicine is often assumed to be a subset
of human medicinal knowledge. Here we investigate the possibility that some …

Ethnopharmacological relevance While the interest in finding medical solutions for the
worldwide antibiotics crisis is rising, the legal possibility of simplified authorization of herbal …

Use of herbal, complementary and alternative medicines during pregnancy, labour and
delivery is common in Zimbabwe. This study aimed at documenting herbal, complementary …