Intracultural variation in the knowledge of medicinal plants in an urban-rural community in the Atlantic Forest from Northeastern Brazil

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  De Almeida, Cecília De Fátima Castelo Branco Rangel ^a   Ramos, Marcelo Alves ^a   Silva, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos ^a   De Melo, Joabe Gomes ^a   Medeiros, Maria Franco Trindade ^a   Arajo, Thiago Antonio De Sousa ^a   De Almeida, Alyson Luiz Santos ^a   De Amorim, Elba Lcia Cavalcanti ^b   Alves, Rmulo Romeu Da Nbrega ^c   De Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHACEAE; ADULT; AMARANTHACEAE; ANACARDIACEAE; ANNONACEAE; APIACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BEGONIACEAE; BIGNONIACEAE; BORAGINACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; BRAZIL; BROMELIACEAE; BURSERACEAE; CACTACEAE; CAESALPINIACEAE; CAPPARACEAE; CAPRIFOLIACEAE; CARICACEAE; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; CLUSIACEAE; COMBRETACEAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVOLVULACEAE; CRASSULACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EQUISETACEAE; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIACEAE; EXOTIC SPECIES; FABACEAE; FOREST; HELICONIACEAE; HUMAN; ILLIACEAE; IRIDACEAE; KNOWLEDGE; LAMIACEAE; LAURACEAE; LILIACEAE; LYTHRACEAE; MALPIGHIACEAE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; MIMOSACEAE; MONIMIACEAE; MORACEAE; MUSACEAE; MYRTACEAE; NATIVE SPECIES; NYCTAGINACEAE; OLACACEAE; OXALIDACEAE; PAPAVERACEAE; PASSIFLORACEAE; PEDALIACEAE; PHYTOLACACEAE; PIPERACEAE; POACEAE; POLYGALACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHAMNACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RURAL POPULATION; RUTACEAE; SALICACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SAPOTACEAE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SMILACACEAE; SOLANACEAE; THEACAEA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TURNERACEA; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URTICACEAE; VERBENACEAE; VIOLACEAE; VITACEAE; ZINGIBERACEAE;

EID: 84855167147     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/679373     Document Type: Article

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