Use of medicinal plants in the South-Eastern area of the Partenio Regional Park (Campania, Southern Italy)

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 297-307

  Menale, Bruno ^a   Muoio, Rosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ethnobotanical study; Medicinal plants; Partenio Regional Park; Plant traditional uses

Indexed keywords

ACHILLEA; ADULT; AGED; AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON REPENS; ALDER; ALNUS CORDATA; ALTHAEA; ALTHEA OFFICINALIS; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTEMISIA VULGARIS; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; BASIL; BRACKEN FERN; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRYONIA; BRYONIA CRETICA; CALYSTEGIA SEPIUM; CAPRIFOLIACEAE; CELERY; CENTRANTHUS RUBER; CERATONIA SILIQUA; CHELIDONIUM; CHICORY; CONIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CRATAEGUS LAEVIGATA; CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA; CYCLAMEN; CYNODON DACTYLON; DATURA STRAMONIUM; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; FABACEAE; FENNEL; FIG; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS ORNUS; GARLIC; GERANIUM; GERANIUM ROBERTIANUM; HERB; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; ITALY; JUGLANS REGIA; LAMIUM ALBUM; LAURUS NOBILIS; LETTUCE; LINSEED; LUPIN; LUPINUS ALBUS; MAIZE; MALUS DOMESTICA; MALVA; MALVA SYLVESTRIS; MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA; MERCURIALIS ANNUA; MERCURIALIS PERENNIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORUS ALBA; MORUS NIGRA; NONHUMAN; OAK; OAT; OLIVE TREE; ONION; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA FICUS INDICA; PAPAVER RHOEAS; PARIETARIA; PETROSELINUM; PETROSELINUM SATIVUM; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PLANT LEAF; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; PLANTAGO MAJOR; QUERCUS ROBUR; RADISH; ROSEMARY; SALVIA OFFICINALIS; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SHRUB; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SPELT; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; THYMUS; THYMUS LONGICAULIS; TOMATO; TREE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; URTICA DIOICA; VALERIANA OFFICINALIS; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHEMISTRY; INTERVIEW; PHYTOTHERAPY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VETERINARY; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ITALY; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84897109309     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.02.039     Document Type: Article

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