Folk medicine in the northern coast of Colombia: an overview

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gómez Estrada, Harold ^a   Díaz Castillo, Fredyc ^a   Franco Ospina, Luís ^a   Mercado Camargo, Jairo ^a   Guzmán Ledezma, Jaime ^a   Medina, José D ^a   Gaitán Ibarra, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARTAGENA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bol var Colombia; Ethnopharmacological survey; Medicinal plants; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

CRESCENTIA CUJETE; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; EUPHORBIA; GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM; HELIOTROPIUM; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM; MALACHRA ALCEIFOLIA; MATRICARIA; MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA; MENTHA; MENTHA VERTICILLATA; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM VULGARE; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MAJOR; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOMBIA; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; COLOMBIA; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 80053175612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-7-27     Document Type: Article

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