Several studies have reported the ethnobotany characteristics and pharmacological properties of ayahuasca, beverage prepared from decoction of two Amazon forest native species, the vine Banisteriopsis caapi and the bush Psychotria viridis. This beverage, in which its use date from pre-Columbian period, has been employed in religious cults by many south-American populations situated in the Brazi...

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of scholarship around the topic of intellectual property law and indigenous people. Joining together fields as diverse as law, ethnobotany, pharmacology and anthropology, this topic has transformed theory and practice in each of these fields, becoming, for example, an established subfield in the discipline of anthropology, a subject of ethical debat...

http://hdl.handle.net/10125/197 Ethnobotany Research & Applications 3:391-403 (2005) Will C. McClatchey, Department of Botany, 3190 Maile Way, 101, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. U.S.A. [email protected] Lisa X. Gollin, Department of Ecology and Health, John Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. U.S.A. [email protected] ...

A comparison is made between 21 species of plants used in common by two culturally distinct Bedouin groups living in different areas of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, the Bischarin and the Khushmaan Ma'aza. We document how plants are utilized by each culture for nutritional, medicinal, and functional (utilitarian) purposes and aim to investigate if these uses arose independently through a paralle...

The study discussed ethnobotany of and threats to wild edible plants in Derashe and Kucha Districts, South Ethiopia. Semi-structured interview, field observation, group discussion, market survey, and pair wise ranking were employed to gather ethnobotanical data. The information was collected from informants of three ethnic groups namely, Kusume, Derashe and Gamo people. The study documented 66 ...

In the Mediterranean region, some wild edible species such as Asparagus acutifolius L. are still harvested and even marketed. Considering the great interest of this species, including its recreational, commercial and agronomic uses, we aimed to study its natural supply and its current scale of harvesting. Nearly 50 plants were monitored in two sites of Central Spain. An experimental harvest of ...

BACKGROUND A survey relative to the use of plants for the cure of animals in Tunisia was conducted in order to make a comparison with the same species (or similar ones) in central and southern Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS available bibliographical data both for Italy and for Tunisia were consulted. RESULTS Thirty-nine plants, representing 22 families, used in Tunisia in ethnoveterinary medi...