Ethnopharmacological inventory of plants used in Coronel Portillo Province of Ucayali Department, Peru

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-136

  Polesna, Lucie ^a   Polesny, Zbynek ^a   Clavo, Mirella Z ^b   Hansson, Anders ^c   Kokoska, Ladislav ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos   (Peru)

^c Ametra Ucayali   (Peru)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; ethnopharmacology; medicinal plants; Peru; Ucayali Department

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BRUNFELSIA GRANDIFLORA; CALYCOPHYLLUM SPRUCEANUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG USE; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERB; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; NAUCLEOPSIS GLABRA; PERU; PHTHIRUSA PYRIFOLIA; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PROSTATE DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RUBIACEAE; STOMACH PAIN; WOUND;

ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

BRUNFELSIA GRANDIFLORA; CALYCOPHYLLUM SPRUCEANUM; LORANTHACEAE; MORACEAE; NAUCLEOPSIS; PHTHIRUSA PYRIFOLIA; PICEA; RUBIACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 79251646376     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13880209.2010.504927     Document Type: Article

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