Medicinal plants are one of very valuable rescores in wide range of world and Iran natural resources. Herbal medicines against chemical and synthetic drugs have bad effects and minor side effects and or are completely harmless. Interest in ethnobotany has increased dramatically in recent years. Medicinal folklore over the years has proved to be an invaluable guide in present day screening of dr...

Abstract Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, a reference work for Brazilian natural sciences, contains information on species observed by 17th century naturalists. Among the reports, botanical family Fabaceae deserves to be highlighted among taxa that make up flora due its richness of and economic interest. In this sense, objective present study was retrieve regarding cited in Brasiliae naturalists P...

www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol10/i1547-3465-10-305.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 10:305-320 (2012) Girmay Zenebe, Hawassa University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, School of Forestry, P. O. Box 128, Shahemene, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Mohammed Zerihun, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Zewdie Solomon, Hawassa Un...

A gastronomic and medical ethnobotanical study was conducted among the Occitan communities living in Blins/Bellino and Chianale, in the upper Val Varaita, in the Piedmontese Alps, North-Western Italy, and the traditional uses of 88 botanical taxa were recorded. Comparisons with and analysis of other ethnobotanical studies previously carried out in other Piemontese and surrounding areas, show th...

BACKGROUND/AIM This work aimed an ethnobatanical study on the galactogenic plants used in the Berhoum region (East of M'sila, Algeria) as a part of different studies on the medicinal plants related to M'sila region. METHODS The fieldwork was undertaken as an ethnobotanical survey involving 76 informants (mean age: 50; 64% women, 36% men). Used the medicinal plants were identified, and the res...

BACKGROUND This paper is based on ethnomedicinal investigation conducted from 1999-2002 in Chuxiong, central Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The Yi medicine has made a great contribution to the ethnomedicinal field in China. Neither case studies nor integrated inventories have previously been conducted to investigate the traditional Yi plants. This paper aims to argue the status and features ...

Background: Studies that aim to analyze the transcultural traditional knowledge from different countries still in their infancy but are essential favor an equal and fair division of benefits resulting exploration genetic resources develop sustainable strategies for conservation. The goal this research is compare about medicinal plants by Huni Kuĩ people with other cultures, order assess singula...

India is rich in ethnic diversity and traditional knowledge that has resulted in a considerable body of ethno botanical research, of which one study has revealed a deep understanding of medicinal plants supported by high consensus. Ethanobotany means the studies of plants used by primitive people living in rural and forest areas. Rural people of the study area have strong relations with the sur...

BACKGROUND This study focuses on health-related plant use among speakers of the critically endangered Naukan language (Inuit-Yupik-Unangan family) in the Russian Far East. The Naukan people were forced, in 1958, under Soviet consolidation, to move from their original settlement on Cape Dezhnev, leading to significant changes in spiritual worldview, subsistence, social structure, and language pr...

Objective: Today, medicinal plants are widely used in remedies for several ailments and improvement of human health because of their pharmaceutical properties. This study aimed to document important useful medicinal plants and their medicinal characteristics for treatment of human ailments in the Arjan _ Parishan protected area in Fars province of Iran during 2010-2012. Materials and Methods: D...