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Medical ethnobotany [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
This collection on medical ethnobotany focuses on contributions that explore the invaluable potential associated with the ethnobotanical uses of medicinal plants, their phytochemical profiling, safety, and efficacy studies as well as their cultural and ...
Adeyemi O. Aremu   +2 more
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What are the most significant challenges that ethnobiology and ethnomedicine have faced so far, and how were they dealt with? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Ethnobiology explores the complex, evolving relationships between humans and the natural world, encompassing diverse subfields such as ethnobotany, ethnozoology, ethnopharmacology, and more.
Rainer W. Bussmann   +2 more
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Use of aromatic plants and essential oils in the teaching of physics and chemistry to enhance motivation and sustainability awareness among primary education trainee teachers [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon
This work faces the known problem of negative visión among prospective primary teachers regarding science teaching and learning. This is even more acute if gender is taken into account.
Lorena Gutiérrez-García   +4 more
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Tracing gender variation in traditional knowledge: participatory tools to promote conservation in a Quilombola community in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background Based on participatory research tools and analysis with a gender focus, we aim to identify the knowledge associated with native plants of the Atlantic Forest in one Quilombola community whose territory is juxtaposed with a protected area, in ...
Daniele Cantelli   +4 more
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TRADITIONAL USES OF THREATENED ANGIOPTERIS EVECTA (G.FORST.) HOFFM. (MARATTIACEAE) AS AN ANTIDOTE TO SNAKE BITES AND INSECT STINGS BY THE TANGSA TRIBE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA [PDF]

open access: yesExploratory Animal and Medical Research, 2023
Angiopteris evecta (G.Forst) Hoffm. (Marattiaceae), an endangered fern, utilized medicinally by several traditional societies across the world. Its use as food is rarely reported in literature.
Pyonim Lungphi   +4 more
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Chemical composition, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and toxicityactivities, of the essential oil of Fortunella margarita peels

open access: yesJournal of Biological Research, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify the principal components of the essential oil extracted from Fortunella margarita peels via hydrodistillation and to evaluate in vitro its anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and toxicity properties ...
Zineb Lakache   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wound healing and analgesic effects of Brocchia cinerea essential oil in experimental animals

open access: yesJournal of Biological Research, 2023
This study aimed to identify the main components of the essential oil extracted from Brocchia cinerea (Delile) Vis. via hydrodistillation and investigate its in vivo wound healing and analgesic properties.
Zineb Lakache   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unity in diversity—food plants and fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021
Background The Republic of Georgia is part of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot, and human agricultural plant use dates back at least 6000 years. Over the last years, lots of ethnobotanical research on the area has been published.
Rainer W. Bussmann   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The “City Healing” Development through Ethnobotany Urban Farming with a Sustainable Planet, People, and Profit Approach

open access: yesKufa Journal for Agricultural Sciences, 2023
Limited land, environmental contamination, the loss of agricultural culture, and the inability to use ethnobotany all contribute to the health problems city dwellers face.
Suswadi, NORBERTUS CITRA IRAWAN
doaj   +1 more source

“If there’s no dill, the taste isn’t right!” A comparison of food plant knowledge between Polish and German descendants in the context of an imagined culinary community in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Ethnic Foods, 2021
Food is a cultural marker investigated by several fields of knowledge. The ecological approach to food plants used in human societies can give us insights into food biodiversity and its connection to cultural identity.
Rafaela H. Ludwinsky   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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