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| Van Sam, Hoang; Baas, P.; Keßler, P.J.A.. |
| This paper surveys the medicinal plants and their traditional use by local people in Ben En National Park, Vietnam. A total of 230 medicinal plant species (belonging to 200 genera and 84 families) is used by local people for treatment of 68 different diseases. These include species that are collected in the wild (65%) as well as species grown in home gardens. Leaves, stems and roots are most commonly used either fresh or dried or by decocting the dried parts in water. Women are mainly responsible for health care, they have better knowledge of medicinal plants than men, and also collect them more than men at almost every age level. The indigenous knowledge of traditional medicinal plants may be rapidly lost because 43% of the young generation do not know or... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Ben En National Park; Traditional medicinal plants; Disease treatment; Conservation. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/525136 |
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| PENIDO,Alexandre Batista; MORAIS,Selene Maia de; RIBEIRO,Alan Bezerra; SILVA,Ana Zélia. |
| ABSTRACT The study of medicinal plants reveals locally important plant species often useful for the discovery of new drugs. The objective of this research was to conduct an ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by the population of the Imperatriz city, State of Maranhão, Northeastern Brazil. Two hundred and five interviews were conducted, resulting in the collection of 60 plant species from 31 plant families. The highest number of species belongs to Fabaceae, followed by Lamiaceae, Asteraceae and Euphorbiaceae. The most reported species were Chenopodium ambrosioides, Myracrodruon urundeuva, Lippia alba, and Plectranthus barbatus. The main plant parts used were leaves (63.3%), bark (16.7%), fruits (6.7%), roots (6.7%), seeds (3.3), stems (1.7%) and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Traditional knowledge natural products; Disease treatment; Ethnopharmacology. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672016000400345 |
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