Food, feed or medicine: The multiple functions of edible wild plants in Vietnam

Economic Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-117

  Ogle, Britta M ^a,b   Tuyet, Ho Thi ^c   Duyet, Hoang Nghia ^c   Dung, Nguyen Nhut Xuan ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Edible wild plants; Folk medicine; Gathered livestock feeds; Medicinal foods; Multifunctionality; Phyto nutrients; Traditional functional foods; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037965121     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2003)057[0103:FFOMTM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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