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Plants used traditionally as antimalarials in Latin America: Mining the tree of life for potential new medicines
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Useful Brazilian plants listed in the manuscripts and publications of the Scottish medic and naturalist George Gardner (1812–1849).
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Southern Africa as a ‘cradle of incense’ in wider African aromatherapy.
The modern paradigm of aromatherapy is based on in vitro assays of pure volatile organic compounds (as an essential oil), with activity at non-clinically significant concentrations. Yet traditional use of aromatic species did not involve pure essential oils because hydrodistillation was only invented in relatively recent times (estimated 1200 AD).... -
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Ethnobotany of Hawaiian figure sculpture
Anecdotal theories about traditional uses of Polynesian woods in relation to social and religious practices were tested using comparative wood identification. The woods used to make 135 figure carvings from the Hawaiian archipelago were identified and compared with 23 figure carvings from elsewhere in Polynesia (especially Tahiti and the Marquesas)....Rudall, Paula J. ; Cartwright, Caroline R.
Pacific Islands, Wood, Hawaii, Figure sculpture, and Ethnobotany