Popular uses of wild plant species for medicinal purposes in the Nebrodi Regional Park (North-Eastern Sicily, Italy)

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 157, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-37

  Tuttolomondo, Teresa ^a   Licata, Mario ^a   Leto, Claudio ^a   Bonsangue, Giuseppe ^a   Letizia Gargano, Maria ^a   Venturella, Giuseppe ^a   La Bella, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brassica rupestris Raf.; Cultural erosion; Ethnobotanical indices; Mediterranean folk medicine; Nebrodi Regional Park; Sicily

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMAN; ITALY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDICINAL SPECIES; RURAL POPULATION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WILD PLANT; AGED; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RURAL POPULATION; SICILY;

EID: 84907907307     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.08.039     Document Type: Article

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