Palm uses in northwestern South America: a quantitative review

MJ Macía, PJ Armesilla, R Cámara-Leret… - The Botanical …, 2011 - Springer
A thorough review concerning palm uses in tropical rainforests of north-western South
America was carried out to understand patterns of palm use throughout ecoregions …

Cross-cultural adaptation in urban ethnobotany: the Colombian folk pharmacopoeia in London

M Ceuterick, I Vandebroek, B Torry, A Pieroni - Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
AIM OF THE STUDY: To investigate traditional health care practices and changes in
medicinal plant use among the growing Colombian community in London. MATERIALS AND …

Traditional knowledge on medicinal and food plants used in Val San Giacomo (Sondrio, Italy)—An alpine ethnobotanical study

S Vitalini, M Iriti, C Puricelli, D Ciuchi, A Segale… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: This work increases the ethnobotanical data
from Northern Italy and, in particular, the Lombardy region, till now poorly documented …

Cultural Importance Indices: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Useful Wild Plants of Southern Cantabria (Northern Spain)1

J Tardío, M Pardo-de-Santayana - Economic botany, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Cultural Importance Indices: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Useful Wild
Plants of Southern Cantabria (Northern Spain). This paper compares four indices based on …

Medicinal plants of the caatinga (semi-arid) vegetation of NE Brazil: a quantitative approach

UP De Albuquerque, PM De Medeiros… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
The caatinga (semi-arid vegetation) is a Brazilian biome with a significant but poorly studied
biodiversity closely associated with a diverse cultural heritage. The present work focused on …

Medicinal plants with bioprospecting potential used in semi-arid northeastern Brazil

SL Cartaxo, MM de Almeida Souza… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Many species of the Caatinga flora are used as medicines in local
communities. In recent decades, the knowledge and use of these species has been …

Ethnobotanical survey of the medicinal flora of Harighal, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

MS Amjad, U Zahoor, RW Bussmann, M Altaf… - Journal of ethnobiology …, 2020 - Springer
Background The present study is the first quantitative ethnobotanical evaluation of Harighal,
an inaccessible and unexplored area of District Bagh Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK). The …

Re-examining hypotheses concerning the use and knowledge of medicinal plants: a study in the Caatinga vegetation of NE Brazil

UP De Albuquerque - Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Background The Caatinga (dry land vegetation) is one of the most characteristic
vegetation types in northeastern Brazil. It occupies a large percentage of the semi-arid …

Medicinal and magic plants from a public market in northeastern Brazil

UP de Albuquerque, JM Monteiro, MA Ramos… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Markets are public spaces in which many kinds of products are sold, as well as places of
cultural information exchange. These spaces are distinctive for each given culture or society …

Quantitative ethnopharmacological documentation and molecular confirmation of medicinal plants used by the Manobo tribe of Agusan del Sur, Philippines

MLG Dapar, GJD Alejandro, U Meve… - Journal of ethnobiology …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Philippines is renowned as one of the species-rich countries and
culturally megadiverse in ethnicity around the globe. However, ethnopharmacological …