Medicinal plant knowledge in a context of cultural pluralism: A case study in Northeastern Brazil

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 175, Issue , 2015, Pages 124-130

  Abreu, Diego Batista De Oliveira ^a   Santoro, Flávia Rosa ^a   Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino De ^a   Ladio, Ana Haydée ^b   Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz De ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c Programa de Pós graduação em História   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Evolutionary ethnobiology; Human ecology; Migration

Indexed keywords

ABAREMA; ABAREMA COCHLIACARPOS; ADULT; ALOE; ALOE ARBORESCENS; ALOE VERA; ANISE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES; CITRUS; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CYMBOPOGON; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; CYMBOPOGON DENSIFLORUS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; KNOWLEDGE; LIPPIA; LIPPIA ALBA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA; MIGRANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLECTANTHUS NEOCHILUS; PLECTRANTHUS; PLECTRANTHUS AMBOINICUS; PLECTRANTHUS BARBATUS; ROSMARINUS; RURAL POPULATION; STRYPHNODENDRON; STRYPHNODENDRON ROTUNDIFOLIUM; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; POPULATION GROUP; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POPULATION GROUPS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942522785     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.09.019     Document Type: Article

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