Between bellyaches and lucky charms: Revealing latinos' plant-healing knowledge and practices in New York City

Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 64-85

  Viladrich, Anahí ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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