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2021
Journal article
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
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2021
Journal article
South Africa’s Best BARK Medicines Prescribed at the Johannesburg Muthi Markets for Skin, Gut, and Lung Infections: MIC’s and Brine Shrimp Lethality.
Indigenous trade of medicinal plants in South Africa is a multi-million-rand industry and is still highly relevant in terms of primary health care. The purpose of this study was to identify today’s most traded medicinal barks, traditionally and contemporaneously used for dermatological, gastrointestinal, and respiratory tract infections; then, to investigate...