Indigenous medicinal plants in Mexico: The example of the Nahua (Sierra de Zongolica)

Botanica Acta

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 62-72

  Weimann, Claudia ^a   Heinrich, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ethnobotany; ethnopharmacology; evaluation of plant use; Medicinal plants; Mexico (Indians); Nahua; useful plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030989785     PISSN: 09328629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1997.tb00612.x     Document Type: Article

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