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What Factors Guide the Selection of Medicinal Plants in a Local Pharmacopoeia? A Case Study in a Rural Community from a Historically Transformed Atlantic Forest Landscape
Joint Authors
Alves Ramos, Marcelo
Silva, Taline Cristina da
Silva, Josilene Marinho da
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-01-21
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The criteria that local people use for selecting medicinal plants have been a recurrent topic in pharmacology and ethnobotany.
Two of the current hypotheses regarding this phenomenon, ecological apparency and diversification, attempt to explain the inclusion of “apparent” and “non-apparent” and native and exotic taxa, respectively, in local pharmacopoeia.
This study addresses the following questions: Do “apparent” and “non-apparent” medicinal plants have the same importance in local pharmacopoeia? Do “non-apparent” plants occupy more local categories of diseases than “apparent” plants? Do native and exotic medicinal plants have the same importance? Do exotic and native plants occupy different local categories of diseases? This study was conducted with householders of a community from Northeastern Brazil.
Out of the 66 plant species cited, most were herbs (39 species), followed by trees and shrubs (27).
Herbaceous species also occupied more local categories of diseases (51) than tree and shrub species (28).
Furthermore, most of the species cited by the informants were exotic (42).
Out of the 94 therapeutic applications cited in this research, 65 were treated with exotic species and 29 with native species, distributed among 13 body systems.
These results support both the hypotheses of ecological apparency and diversification.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Silva, Taline Cristina da& Silva, Josilene Marinho da& Alves Ramos, Marcelo. 2018. What Factors Guide the Selection of Medicinal Plants in a Local Pharmacopoeia? A Case Study in a Rural Community from a Historically Transformed Atlantic Forest Landscape. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1154622
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Silva, Taline Cristina da…[et al.]. What Factors Guide the Selection of Medicinal Plants in a Local Pharmacopoeia? A Case Study in a Rural Community from a Historically Transformed Atlantic Forest Landscape. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1154622
American Medical Association (AMA)
Silva, Taline Cristina da& Silva, Josilene Marinho da& Alves Ramos, Marcelo. What Factors Guide the Selection of Medicinal Plants in a Local Pharmacopoeia? A Case Study in a Rural Community from a Historically Transformed Atlantic Forest Landscape. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1154622
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1154622