Medicinal plants in Mexico: Healers' consensus and cultural importance

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1859-1871

  Heinrich, Michael ^a   Ankli, Anita ^b   Frei, Barbara ^b   Weimann, Claudia ^a   Sticher, Otto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Informant consensus; Intercultural comparison; Medicinal plants; Mexican Indian; Self medication; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ARTICLE; BOTANY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG UTILIZATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALING; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEXICO; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SELF MEDICATION; SKIN DISEASE; TAXONOMY;

CULTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MEXICO; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

MEXICO;

EID: 0031759640     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00181-6     Document Type: Article

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