An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used in Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-81

  Tene, Vicente ^a   Malagón, Omar ^a   Finzi, Paola Vita ^b   Vidari, Giovanni ^b   Armijos, Chabaco ^a   Zaragoza, Tomás ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Ethnobotanical survey; Medicinal plants; Palta; Saraguro; Shuar

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

AGAVACEAE; ALLERGY; AMARANTHACEAE; ANALGESIA; ANEMIA; ANGIOSPERM; ANNONACEAE; APIALES; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BARK; BEGONIACEAE; BETULACEAE; BIXACEAE; DENTAL CARIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECUADOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOBOTANY; EYE DISEASE; FEVER; FLOWER; FRACTURE; GANGRENE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LACERATION; LEGUME; LUNG DISEASE; MALPIGHIACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MORACEAE; ONAGRACEAE; PAIN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PTERIDACEAE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STROKE; THERAPY EFFECT; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERBENACEAE;

DATA COLLECTION; ECUADOR; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 33947579525     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.10.032     Document Type: Article

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