Traditional medicines are a principal form of health care for many populations, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and they have gained attention as an important means of health care coverage globally. In ...

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Epilepsy affects 150,000 people in Peru, with a prevalence of 16.6/1000 and a treatment gap of 75%. Herbal medicine (HM) is widely used in this country. Aim of the study: We aimed to assess ...

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 ...

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Traditional pharmacopeias have been developed by multiple cultures and evaluated for efficacy and safety through both historical/empirical iteration and more recently through controlled ...

The Andean worldview embraces a holistic understanding of well-being. For Andean Traditional Medicine (ATM), health comprises the internal energetic equilibrium of the individual and the equivalent energetic balance with ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a life-threatening disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that is accounted as global public health concern. Treatment of COVID-19 is primarily ...

A survey of medicinal plants used by rural and urban inhabitants of the three cities of the Tropical Atlantic Forest, Region of Vale do Ribeira, State of São Paulo, Brazil was performed by means of 200 interviews with ...

Objectives: Examine factors associated with use of traditional medicine during childbirth and in management of childhood diarrhoea. Design: Cross-sectional cluster survey, household interviews in a stratified last stage ...