Medicinal plants of the Achuar (Jivaro) of Amazonian Ecuador: Ethnobotanical survey and comparison with other Amazonian pharmacopoeias

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 78-88

  Giovannini, Peter ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achuar; Amazon; Ecuador; Ethnomedicine; Medicinal plant knowledge; Medicinal plants; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGMANSIA; COMMON COLD; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; DIARRHEA; ECUADOR; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINGER; GUAVA; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS; LIME (FRUIT); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDICINAL SPECIES; PARASITOSIS; RAIN FOREST; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SNAKEBITE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPLINT; SPRAIN; TUBERCULOSIS; WITCHCRAFT; WOUND; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYTOTHERAPY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; ECUADOR; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHARMACOPOEIAS AS TOPIC; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84923368155     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.01.038     Document Type: Article

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