scholarly journals MEDICINAL FLORA CONSUMPTION IN PERU

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
ISABEL MARIA MADALENO
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Flora

scholarly journals The Role of Botanical Families in Medicinal Ethnobotany: A Phylogenetic Perspective

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Airy Gras ◽  
Oriane Hidalgo ◽  
Ugo D’Ambrosio ◽  
Montse Parada ◽  
Teresa Garnatje ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diversity Indices ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Phylogenetic Level ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Medicinal Flora

Studies suggesting that medicinal plants are not chosen at random are becoming more common. The goal of this work is to shed light on the role of botanical families in ethnobotany, depicting in a molecular phylogenetic frame the relationships between families and medicinal uses of vascular plants in several Catalan-speaking territories. The simple quantitative analyses for ailments categories and the construction of families and disorders matrix were carried out in this study. A Bayesian approach was used to estimate the over- and underused families in the medicinal flora. Phylogenetically informed analyses were carried out to identify lineages in which there is an overrepresentation of families in a given category of use, i.e., hot nodes. The ethnobotanicity index, at a specific level, was calculated and also adapted to the family level. Two diversity indices to measure the richness of reported taxa within each family were calculated. A total of 47,630 use reports were analysed. These uses are grouped in 120 botanical families. The ethnobotanicity index for this area is 14.44% and the ethnobotanicity index at the family level is 68.21%. The most-reported families are Lamiaceae and Asteraceae and the most reported troubles are disorders of the digestive and nutritional system. Based on the meta-analytic results, indicating hot nodes of useful plants at the phylogenetic level, specific ethnopharmacological research may be suggested, including a phytochemical approach of particularly interesting taxa.

scholarly journals Medicinal Flora of the Popoluca, Mexico: A Botanical Systematical Perspective

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Leonti ◽  
Fernando Ramirez R. ◽  
Otto Sticher ◽  
Michael Heinrich
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Flora

scholarly journals Alien woody plants are more versatile than native, but both share similar therapeutic redundancy in South Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0260390
Author(s):  
Kowiyou Yessoufou ◽  
Annie Estelle Ambani ◽  
Hosam O. Elansary ◽  
Orou G. Gaoue
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Native Plants ◽  
Invasion Biology ◽  
Alien Plants ◽  
Parasitic Infections ◽  
Alien Plant Species ◽  
Secondary Chemistry ◽  
Alien Plant ◽  
Medicinal Flora

Understanding why alien plant species are incorporated into the medicinal flora in several local communities is central to invasion biology and ethnobiology. Theories suggest that alien plants are incorporated in local pharmacopoeias because they are more versatile or contribute unique secondary chemistry which make them less therapeutically redundant, or simply because they are locally more abundant than native species. However, a lack of a comprehensive test of these hypotheses limits our understanding of the dynamics of plants knowledge, use and potential implications for invasion. Here, we tested the predictions of several of these hypotheses using a unique dataset on the woody medicinal flora of southern Africa. We found that the size of a plant family predicts the number of medicinal plants in that family, a support for the non-random hypothesis of medicinal plant selection. However, we found no support for the diversification hypothesis: i) both alien and native plants were used in the treatment of similar diseases; ii) significantly more native species than alien contribute to disease treatments particularly of parasitic infections and obstetric-gynecological diseases, and iii) alien and native species share similar therapeutic redundancy. However, we found support for the versatility hypothesis, i.e., alien plants were more versatile than natives. These findings imply that, although alien plant species are not therapeutically unique, they do provide more uses than native plants (versatility), thus suggesting that they may not have been introduced primarily for therapeutic reasons. We call for similar studies to be carried out on alien herbaceous plants for a broader understanding of the integration of alien plants into the pharmacopoeias of the receiving communities.

scholarly journals The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1780) ◽  
pp. 20132768 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis ◽  
Julie A. Hawkins ◽  
Simon J. Greenhill ◽  
Colin A. Pendry ◽  
Mark F. Watson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Plant Use ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
Evolutionary Relatedness ◽  
Shared Ancestry ◽  
Medicinal Flora

Traditional knowledge is influenced by ancestry, inter-cultural diffusion and interaction with the natural environment. It is problematic to assess the contributions of these influences independently because closely related ethnic groups may also be geographically close, exposed to similar environments and able to exchange knowledge readily. Medicinal plant use is one of the most important components of traditional knowledge, since plants provide healthcare for up to 80% of the world's population. Here, we assess the significance of ancestry, geographical proximity of cultures and the environment in determining medicinal plant use for 12 ethnic groups in Nepal. Incorporating phylogenetic information to account for plant evolutionary relatedness, we calculate pairwise distances that describe differences in the ethnic groups' medicinal floras and floristic environments. We also determine linguistic relatedness and geographical separation for all pairs of ethnic groups. We show that medicinal uses are most similar when cultures are found in similar floristic environments. The correlation between medicinal flora and floristic environment was positive and strongly significant, in contrast to the effects of shared ancestry and geographical proximity. These findings demonstrate the importance of adaptation to local environments, even at small spatial scale, in shaping traditional knowledge during human cultural evolution.

MEDICINAL FLORA OF INDIAN COLD DESERT

2000 ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Singh ◽  
O.P. Chaurasia
Keyword(s):  
Cold Desert ◽  
Medicinal Flora

Documenting the indigenous knowledge on medicinal flora from communities residing near Swat River (Suvastu) and in high mountainous areas in Swat-Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayed Afzal Shah ◽  
Naseer Ali Shah ◽  
Shafi Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Maqsood Alam ◽  
Hussain Badshah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Medicinal Flora ◽  
Swat River

scholarly journals Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan Peninsula

Marine Drugs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawrin Pech-Puch ◽  
Mar Pérez-Povedano ◽  
Oscar A. Lenis-Rojas ◽  
Jaime Rodríguez ◽  
Carlos Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Marine Organisms ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Organic Extracts ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Medicinal Flora

Mexico is one of the three areas of the world with the greatest terrestrial and cultural biological diversity. The diversity of Mexican medicinal flora has been studied for a long time and several bioactive compounds have been isolated. The investigation of marine resources, and particularly the potential of Mexican marine resources, has not been intensively investigated, even though the Yucatan Peninsula occupies 17.4% of the total of the Mexican coast, with great biological diversity in its coasts and the ocean. There are very few studies on the chemistry of natural products from marine organisms that were collected along the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula and most of them are limited to the evaluation of the biological activity of their organic extracts. The investigations carried out on marine species from the Yucatan Peninsula resulted in the identification of a wide structural variety of natural products that include polyketides, terpenoids, nitrogen compounds, and biopolymers with cytotoxic, antibacterial, antifouling, and neurotoxic activities. This review describes the literature of bioprospecting and the exploration of the natural product diversity of marine organisms from the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula up to mid-2019.

Hepatoprotective species from the Chilean medicinal flora: Junellia spathulata (Verbenaceae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 267 ◽  
pp. 113543
Author(s):  
Raquel Bridi ◽  
Gilsane Lino von Poser ◽  
Miguel Gómez ◽  
Marcelo E. Andia ◽  
Juan Esteban Oyarzún ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Flora
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