Up until now, the plant pharmacopoeia of the Chayahuita, an ethnic group from the Peruvian Amazon, has been poorly defined. This paper details the uses of medicinal plants within this community, as recorded in two villages ...

Objective: To describe the use of medicinal plants in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in public healthcare centers in Peru. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in patients with CKD in healthcare centers ...

Some studies in the field of ethnobiology investigate the knowledge and use of biological resources, especially medicinal plants, to infer the resilience of local medical systems. However, little is known about the ...

Traditional knowledge (TK) of medicinal plants in cities has been poorly studied across different inhabitants’ socioeconomic sectors. We studied the small city of Chachapoyas (~34,000 inhabitants) in the northern Peruvian ...

In the beginning of the 19(th) century, the first Brazilian scientific knowledge journal on medicinal plants the Gazetas Medicas was launch reporting Brazilian medicinal plants belonging to several botanical families. the ...

Considering the quality of the phytotherapic agents, it is important to point out that it includes rigorous attendance of the different steps of the development and production of these products, from the collection of the ...

Se brinda información acerca de nuestras plantas medicinales o venenosas; con vistas a proporcionar a los estudiantes de Botánica, Farmacia, Medicina, Agronomía y Veterinaria una fuente de consulta; estimular a nuestros ...

Background. Thermotolerant Campylobacter is among the more prevalent bacterial pathogens that cause foodborne diseases. This study aimed at evaluating the occurrence of thermotolerant Campylobacter contamination in chicken ...