Screen LibraryEthnobotany : from the traditional to ethnopharmacology /
"The proposed book will present the large-scale synthesis of traditional botanical knowledge of useful plants. Specifically, we will assess spatiotemporal trends in the documentation of traditional knowledge, most useful ecosystems, plant taxa, use categories and indigenous groups. The book wil...
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CRC Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Boca Raton, FL : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"The proposed book will present the large-scale synthesis of traditional botanical knowledge of useful plants. Specifically, we will assess spatiotemporal trends in the documentation of traditional knowledge, most useful ecosystems, plant taxa, use categories and indigenous groups. The book will identify the factors that are affecting the use of different species, abandonment of use, accumulation and transference of traditional knowledge. Recent research revealed that traditional knowledge systems are not static social institutions that are not evolving, as there is evidence of insertions and deletions of plants that compose it, with the addition of exotic plants as food and herbal medicines. The proposed book will also document the nutritional compositions and phytochemical properties of some useful plant species. The proposed book will also focus on plant based food resources as such information on the potential health of individual phytochemical is linked to information on the health effects of food plants that contain those valuable phytochemicals. The last section of the book will focus on establishing the scientific rationale for and safety of useful plants. The book will include chapters focusing on selected plants screened for antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic, anti-amoebic, antischistosomal, antimalarial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, cytotoxicity and toxicological activities using appropriate in vitro and in vivo studies"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781032059860 1032059869 |
| Index Number: | GN476 |
| CLC: | R282.71 |
| Call Number: | R282.71/E847-7 |
| Contents: |
genus aloysia paláu (verbenaceae) in Argentina: a paradigm in ethnobotany -- Ethnobotany of medicinal and sacred plants with ethnopharmacological potential from Southwestern Colombia -- Ethnobotanical uses and potential pharmaceutical applications of the cactaceae family -- Traditional use of plants in Mexico for the treatment of diabetes: an ethnopharmacological review and scientific evaluations -- Limits and risks of plants valorization in Morocco associated with their vernacular names -- Resilience of Mapuche health system and the influence of COVID-19 -- Medicinal use of the plants of the Atacama Desert -- Local botanical knowledge of plants associated with Andean and Chinese Traditions in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (Argentina): an urban ethnobotany study -- Traditional uses, phytochemistry, and pharmacology of mopane (colophospermum mopane) in Southern African Countries -- Traditional medicine of the Kichwa of the Upper Napo -- Traditional practices regarding the use of botanicals to treat bovine haemonchosis in Pakistan. |