Species Substitution in Medicinal Roots and Possible Implications for Toxicity of Herbal Remedies in Morocco

Economic Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 370-382

  Ouarghidi, Abderrahim ^a,b   Powell, Bronwen ^c   Martin, Gary J ^b,d   de Boer, Hugo ^e,f   Abbad, Abdelaziz ^a  

^a CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b Global Diversity Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adulteration; collectors; Confusion; doctors; herbalists; identification; markets; Morocco; NTFP; pharmacists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871720170     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-012-9215-2     Document Type: Article

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