Use of medicinal plants cultivated in a semi-rural community of the Patagonian steppe;Uso de plantas medicinales cultivadas en una comunidad semi-rural de la estepa patagónica

Boletin Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromaticas

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 77-85

  Eyssartier, Cecilia ^a   Ladio, Ana Haydee ^a   Lozada, Mariana ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Ethnobotany; Horticulture; Medicinal plants; Patagonia

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTICLE; BOTANY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVATED LAND; DRUG EFFECT; ETHNOBOTANY; EXOTIC SPECIES; FEMALE; FLOWER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA SPICATA; ONION; OREGANO; PLANT LEAF; PLANT LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PLANT STEM; RURAL POPULATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ALLIUM CEPA; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; MENTHA; MENTHA SPICATA; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM VULGARE;

EID: 77749340883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07177917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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