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2023
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Traditional, Therapeutic Uses and Phytochemistry of Terrestrial European Orchids and Implications for Conservation.
The Orchidaceae family accounts for about 28,000 species, and most of them are mentioned in the folk medicine of nations around the world. The use of terrestrial orchids in European and Mediterranean regions has been reported since ancient times, but little information is available on their medicinal properties, as well...Bazzicalupo, Miriam ; Calevo, Jacopo ; Smeriglio, Antonella ; Cornara, Laura
Orchidaceae, Threatened species, Ethnobotany, Biological properties, Medicinal plants, Europe, and Conservation
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2022
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Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal wild plants in the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Lebanon.
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2022
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2022
Journal article
Cancer and Traditional Plant Knowledge, an Interesting Field to Explore: Data from the Catalan Linguistic Area.
Cancer is the second cause of death in the world and is foreseen to be responsible for about 16 million deaths in 2040. Approximately, 60% of the drugs used to treat cancer are of natural origin. Besides the extensive use of some of these drugs in therapies, such as those... -
2021
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Traditional medicines amongst indigenous groups in Roraima, Brazil: a retrospective.
Surveys of medicinal plants and fungi among five indigenous groups in Roraima, Brazil, were identified in the 1990s but not published. Most of the 52 species reported here were unknown in the literature for the same medicinal purpose when the data were collected, but 25 years later this has changed....Milliken, William
Roraima (Brazil), Ethnobotany, Medicinal plants, Knowledge loss, Traditional medicine, Brazil, and Traditional knowledge