ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Recent studies have shown that groups sharing the same or very similar environments, but with diverse cultural backgrounds (e.g. different ethnos and/or religion) have considerably different knowledge of folk (medicinal) plant uses. Yet, it is not clear to what extent various factors (such as culture, economy, isolation, and especially social and political situati...

Introduction: Ethnobotany involves an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the fields of botany, chemistry, pharmacology and anthropology. The usage of traditional and complementary medicine is on the increase in many developed and developing countries. Objective: The study was done to identify major medicinal plants, and also to document the traditional medicinal plants and their medicinal ...

BACKGROUND By revealing historical and present plant use, ethnobotany contributes to drug discovery and socioeconomic development. Nepal is a natural storehouse of medicinal plants. Although several ethnobotanical studies were conducted in the country, many areas remain unexplored. Furthermore, few studies have compared indigenous plant use with reported phytochemical and pharmacological proper...

Madhuca longifoliaA Review Ashish Kumar*, Bhuvnesh K Singh, Neelanchal Trivedi, Anuj Aggarwal Teerthanker Mahaveer College of Pharmacy, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, 244001 ABSTRACT Since the beginning of human civilization, medicinal plants have been used by mankind for its therapeutic value. Madhuca longifolia (Family: Sapotaceae), is an Indian tropical tre...

BACKGROUND Ethnobotanical studies are crucial in South-Eastern Europe for fostering local development and also for investigating the dynamics of Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) related to plants in one of the most crucial European hotspots for biocultural diversity. The current medico-ethnobotanical survey was conducted in rural alpine communities in Kosovo. The aims of the study were...

The criteria that local people use for selecting medicinal plants have been a recurrent topic in pharmacology and ethnobotany. Two of the current hypotheses regarding this phenomenon, ecological apparency and diversification, attempt to explain the inclusion of "apparent" and "non-apparent" and native and exotic taxa, respectively, in local pharmacopoeia. This study addresses the following ques...

Ethno-medicinal research in district Kathua was conducted during the period 2010 to 2012. The objective of the research was the assessment and preservation of cultural and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants of the area. A checklist of the ethno-medicinal flora has been produced which includes 139 species belonging to 117 genera and 69 families. Information on the medicinal uses gathered ...