Plants are an extremely important contributor to many medicines throughout the world. Because of the amount of forest destruction that is occurring, it is becoming important to find a rapid way to assess forests for their potential of having medicinal plants. Two such methods for assessing areas for medicinal plants, chemotaxonomic and ethnopharmacological are discussed in this paper. A biological survey of an area of premontane wet forest in Monteverde, and interviews of local people were done to compare which would better assess possible medicinal plants in the area. The end result indicates that the biological inventory would be the best way to proceed in Monteverde, although other regions might find it beneficial to use a method that co...
The importance of plants has played a powerful role for medicine throughout human history. Tribes i...
El conocimiento tradicional de las plantas medicinales se está perdiendo, y muchas especies están en...
Ethnopharmacological studies are important for documenting and protecting cultural and traditional k...
Background: Traditional medicine has an important role in local communities, who use plants in the t...
This study was completed in Monteverde, Costa Rica on the diversity of medicinal plants in: premonta...
Traditional knowledge is an important source of obtaining new phytotherapeutic agents. Ethnobotanica...
An integrated and interdisciplinary research programme with native medicinal plants from tropical fo...
AbstractEthnopharmacological relevanceHypotheses from ethnobotany and chemical ecology can increase ...
Globally, medicinal plants have contributed to the discovery of important compounds with new use an...
Plant secondary metabolites are known to play a major role in the adaptation of plants to their envi...
Abstract Background Although the flora of the State of Nuevo León is well known, there are few recor...
Abstract Healing various ailments is probably the most outstanding quality of plants that mankind is...
We assessed the medicinal plant composition of a primary and secondary forest stand in lower montane...
The criteria that local people use for selecting medicinal plants have been a recurrent topic in pha...
Since time immemorial, medicinal plants have been widely used for primary health care by human commu...
The importance of plants has played a powerful role for medicine throughout human history. Tribes i...
El conocimiento tradicional de las plantas medicinales se está perdiendo, y muchas especies están en...
Ethnopharmacological studies are important for documenting and protecting cultural and traditional k...
Background: Traditional medicine has an important role in local communities, who use plants in the t...
This study was completed in Monteverde, Costa Rica on the diversity of medicinal plants in: premonta...
Traditional knowledge is an important source of obtaining new phytotherapeutic agents. Ethnobotanica...
An integrated and interdisciplinary research programme with native medicinal plants from tropical fo...
AbstractEthnopharmacological relevanceHypotheses from ethnobotany and chemical ecology can increase ...
Globally, medicinal plants have contributed to the discovery of important compounds with new use an...
Plant secondary metabolites are known to play a major role in the adaptation of plants to their envi...
Abstract Background Although the flora of the State of Nuevo León is well known, there are few recor...
Abstract Healing various ailments is probably the most outstanding quality of plants that mankind is...
We assessed the medicinal plant composition of a primary and secondary forest stand in lower montane...
The criteria that local people use for selecting medicinal plants have been a recurrent topic in pha...
Since time immemorial, medicinal plants have been widely used for primary health care by human commu...
The importance of plants has played a powerful role for medicine throughout human history. Tribes i...
El conocimiento tradicional de las plantas medicinales se está perdiendo, y muchas especies están en...
Ethnopharmacological studies are important for documenting and protecting cultural and traditional k...