Ethnobotany of Immunomodulatory Treatments Used by the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Belize
| Autor: | Pablo Sanchez Vindas, Victor Cal, Marco Otarola Rojas, Todd Pesek, John T. Arnason, Brendan Walshe-Roussel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences
biology Traditional medicine education Plant Science Fabaceae Horticulture Piperaceae biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences 010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry Ethnobotany Plant species Q eqchi maya Adiantaceae Medicinal plants 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Economic Botany. 73:154-170 |
| ISSN: | 1874-9364 0013-0001 |
| Popis: | Using a quantitative ethnobotanical methodology, we identified 107 plant species belonging to 49 families used by Q’eqchi’ Maya healers in the treatment of symptoms from 14 usage categories related to inflammation. The families with the largest number of medicinal species were Piperaceae, Araceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae, and Adiantaceae with five or more medicinal species. Healer consensus for plant species was high, with 56 species (52%) being used by all the healers, and consensus for usage categories was also high, as informant consensus factor (FIC) values for each category were greater than 0.4. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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