Cross-cultural comparison of three medicinal floras and implications for bioprospecting strategies

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 476-487

  Saslis Lagoudakis, C Haris ^a,b   Williamson, Elizabeth M ^a   Savolainen, Vincent ^b   Hawkins, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binomial analysis; Bioprospecting; Cape of South Africa; Cross cultural ethnomedicine; Nepal; New Zealand; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ANACARDIACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BIOPROSPECTING; CUCUMBER; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUPHORBIA; GERANIACEAE; GUTTIFERAE; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEPAL; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; RUBIACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SAPOTACEAE; SCREENING; SOUTH AFRICA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; NEPAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANACARDIACEAE; ASTERACEAE; CLUSIACEAE; CONVOLVULACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; EUPHORBIACEAE; GERANIACEAE; LAMIACEAE; MALVACEAE; RUBIACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SAPOTACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 79955693897     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.03.044     Document Type: Article

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