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Knowledge of the Ethnomedicinal Plants Used by Tobas and Mocovíes Tribes in the Central-North of Argentina
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Stegmayer, María I. Alvarez, Norma H. Liberto, Melina G. Di Daurelio, Lucas D. Derita, Marcos G. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | Among the flora of different regions of the world, Latin America represents one of the wealthiest sources of material with pharmacological activities due to its biodiversity (Brandão et al. 2008). It possesses a very high number of vascular plants (85,000) (Grornbridge 1992) and there is a recent evidence that neotropical forests located in Latin America possess the highest diversity of plants in the world (Berry 2002). In addition, some factors critically distinguish the medicinal plants of Latin America: (1) this region possesses a huge unexplored biodiversity (Cruz et al. 2007); (2) there is a rich traditional use of medicinal plants (Gupta 1995, 2008); (3) the ethnopharmacological knowledge has been tightly kept or transmitted by the many indigenous populations still living in this region (Murillo 1889, Rosenblat 1954, Morton 1981, Correia 1984, Cleaves 2001, Portillo et al. 2001, Coelho de Souza et al. 2004, 188 Scarpa 2004a, Goleniowski et al. 2006, Cruz et al. 2007, Estévez et al. 2007); and (4) these resources have been poorly studied. Book Name: Ethnobotany |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2018-0-88517-5&isbn=9780429424069&doi=10.1201/9780429424069-10&format=pdf |
| Ending Page | 213 |
| Page Count | 27 |
| Starting Page | 187 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9780429424069-10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2019-01-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Ethnobotany Integrative and Complementary Medicine Medicinal Plants Biodiversity Latin America |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
