Ethnobotany

From the Traditional to Ethnopharmacology
Herausgeber: Maroyi, Alfred; Wagner, Marcelo L.; Martinez, José L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments stem from the lack of efficiency of existing remedies for certain illnesses. We have compiled information that may be useful to researchers in their quest to develop new drugs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781032059860
• ISBN-10: 1032059869
• Artikelnr.: 66688275

Autorenporträt

José L. Martinez is a chemical biologist of the University of Santiago of Chile and gained his MSc from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He works at the Direction of Scientific and Technological Research of the University of Santiago, Chile. He is the Editor and founder of the Latin American and Caribbean Bulletin of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (BLACPMA) and Medicinal Plant Communications. Member of the Editorial Committee of numerous journals and Editor of several books on medicinal plants. Alfred Maroyi is a Full Professor in the Department of Botany, University of Fort Hare, South Africa, with a doctorate in Ethnobotany and Plant Systematics from Wageningen University, Netherlands. In his research, he focuses on plants-people relationships, ethnobotany, phytochemical and pharmacological properties of plant species. He also conducts research on plant ecology, plant systematics, biodiversity conservation and ethnobiology, i.e., local environmental knowledge (LEK) systems, folk perceptions, uses and management of wild and cultivated plants. Marcelo L. Wagner is a tenured Professor of Pharmacobotany at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, and Director of the Museum of Pharmacobotany "Juan Aníbal Domínguez". He is a full academician of the National Academy of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. He has served as the Director of Dominguezia journal, is a full member of the Medicinal Plants of the Argentine Pharmacopeia, and member of Medicinal Plants of the Argentine Institute of Material Rationalization (IRAM).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Ethnobotany 1. The Genus Aloysia Paláu (Verbenaceae) in Argentina.
A Paradigm in Ethnobotany 2. Ethnobotany of Medicinal and Sacred Plants
with Ethnopharmacological Potential from Southwestern Colombia 3.
Ethnobotanical Uses and Potential Pharmaceutical Applications of the
Cactaceae Family 4. Traditional Use of Plants in Mexico for the Treatment
of Diabetes: An Ethnopharmacological Review and Scientific Evaluations 5.
Limits and Risks of Plants Valorization in Morocco Associated with Their
Vernacular Names 6. Resilience of Mapuche Health System and the Influence
of COVID-19 Part 2: Traditional Knowledge of Useful Plants 7. Medicinal Use
of the Plants of the Atacama Desert 8. Local Botanical Knowledge of Plants
Associated with Andean and Chinese Traditions in the Metropolitan Area of
Buenos Aires (Argentina): An Urban Ethnobotany Study 9. Traditional Uses,
Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Mopane (Colophospermum mopane) in
Southern African Countries 10. Traditional Medicine of the Kichwa of the
Upper Napo 11. Traditional Practices Regarding the Use of Botanicals to
Treat Bovine Haemonchosis in Pakistan