BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to document the types of diseases treated by the use of medicinal plants, their main applications and also to have a report of the major diseases treated at the Hospital of San Pablo de Huacareta (Chuquisaca Bolivia). METHODS We conducted semi-structured interviews on the use medicinal plants with 10 local informants, and categorized the kinds of diseases ...

Since the domestication of crop species, humans have derived specific varieties for particular uses and shaped the genetic diversity of these varieties. Here, using an interdisciplinary approach combining ethnobotany and population genetics, we document the within-variety genetic structure of a population-variety of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in relation to farmers' practices to deciphe...

BACKGROUND An ethnobotanical study in the Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (CMNP), Nuevo Leon, Mexico was conducted. In spite of the large area (1,773.7 km2), heterogeneous physiography, contrasting plant communities and high species diversity of the CMNP, very little was previously known about its useful plants. Based on 95 interviews with inhabitants of the region who were 35 years old or o...

www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol3/i1547-3465-03-201.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 3:201-207 (2005) Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA-Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, SPAIN. [email protected] Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Vincent Vadez & Tomás Huanca, Sustainable International Development Program, Heller School for Social Po...

The identification of plants according to the Linnaean system taxonomy is a cornerstone ethnobotany, allowing discipline be comparative science. To accomplish plant identification, ethnobotanists have long relied on collection voucher specimens and their deposition in herbaria. Here we critically analyze role botanical collecting ethnobotany bring attention range issues that can complicate, som...

Medicinal and aromatic plants constitute most significant group of in the welfare living beings. Most these are found growing wild collected by different ethnic rural people our country. They used them freely for treatment various human animal ailments, on basis their ancestral knowledge beliefs. know medicinal usage several nearby sure cure diseases. Ethnobotany, research field science, has be...

Background: This article examines the therapeutic use and quantitative ethnobotany Methods: Data were collected during 2021 2022 surveys as a result of interviews, rapid assessments, collection field materials. Interviews with local population conducted in form questionnaire, consent informants. Results: One hundred seventeen species 73 genera 20 families, used by Kitab district Kashkadarya reg...

BACKGROUND The Republic of Georgia (Sakartvelo in Georgian language) is part of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot, and human agricultural plant use dates bat at least 6000 years. However, little ethnobiological research has been published from the region since the 1940s. Given the lack of recent research in the region, the present study we report on plant uses in Skartvelo (Republic of Georgia)...