Resilience of Andean urban ethnobotanies: A comparison of medicinal plant use among Bolivian and Peruvian migrants in the United Kingdom and in their countries of origin

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-54

  Ceuterick, Melissa ^a,b   Vandebroek, Ina ^c   Pieroni, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Andean community London; Andean traditional medicine; Resilience; Urban ethnobotany

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; COLD; COMMON COLD; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUGHING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; ETHNOBOTANY; FATIGUE; FOOD ORGANISM; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INFLUENZA; LEARNING; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERU; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SKIN INJURY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPECIES; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOLIVIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958106508     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.03.038     Document Type: Article

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