From the field into the lab: Useful approaches to selecting species based on local knowledge

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn APR, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Andrade Cetto, Adolfo ^a   Heinrich, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consensus; Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacology; Index; Quantitative analysis; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FIELD STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 84862650164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2011.00020     Document Type: Article

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