Ethnobotanical and ethnomedical knowledge of the Malays could be known either through oral sources or documented sources. The traditional Malay medicine are useful for modern pharmaceuticals development in Malaysia conservation biodiversity. This study aims to extract categorise ethnobotanical contents medical chapter Tajul Muluk, ancient text. Transliteration data extraction were carried out o...

Background: Liverworts are a group of plants from the Marchantia genus containing various biologically active compounds and comprised 65 species worldwide. This plant belongs to Marchantiaceae family, which was used empirically in China, North America, Ancient Greece, Indonesia treat open wounds, burns, hepatotoxicity, infection prevention. Now, liverworts have great potential as medicinal nutr...

BACKGROUND Interest in ethnomedicine has grown in the last decades, with much research focusing on how local medicinal knowledge can contribute to Western medicine. Researchers have emphasized the divide between practices used by local medical practitioners and Western doctors. However, researchers have also suggested that merging concepts and practices from local medicinal knowledge and Wester...

In Spain, studies about traditional knowledge related to biodiversity have focused on vascular plants. For this reason, our review concentrates on the identification and inventory of zootherapeutic resources, particularly those involving the dog (Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus, 1758) throughout the twentieth century to the present. A qualitative systematic review in the fields of ethnomedicine...

Think globally, act locally Local Knowledge Systems (LKS) consist of the knowledge, beliefs, traditions, practices, institutions, and worldviews developed and sustained by indigenous and local communities, and are believed to represent an adaptive strategy to the environment in which these communities live. The value of LKS has been contested by some scholars as being restricted to local issues...

BACKGROUND North-West of Pakistan is bestowed with medicinal plant resources due to diverse geographical and habitat conditions. The traditional use of plants for curing various diseases forms an important part of the region's cultural heritage. The study was carried out to document medicinal plants used in Frontier Region (FR) Bannu, an area affected by the "War on Terror". METHODS Fieldwork...

The belief that HIV/AIDS can be cured as a result of having sex with a virgin has been identified as a possible factor in the rape of babies and children in South Africa. While the prevalence of this myth has been a matter of concern in local communities for some time, there have been recent attempts to discern the extent to which this belief is exacerbating perceived increases in child rape an...

Studies related to ethnomedicines investigate the way people manage illness and diseases because of their cultural perspective. Fields like ecology, epidemiology, and medical history jointly contribute to the broad field of ethnomedical study. The knowledge gathered by traditional healers in the villages and tribal communities on natural medicines remains unfamiliar to the majority of scientist...