Native Americans of different regions developed various * See Nantes and Places at the end of this volume for further information. myths about tobacco. In the Southwest and Central America, tobacco is associated with rainfall because tobacco smoke resembles clouds that bring rain. A story from sout...
Among them, folk functions of 12 species can be found in diversified functions of TMM or TCM. The records of the folk functions of Ephedra sinica, Polygonum aviculare, and Thymus serpyllum var. asiaticus have not been found in TMM or TCM. Adenophora wulingshanica works to “clear away ...
The variation in the number of medicinal plants found in different study areas may be attributed to factors such as the area of vegetation type, the number of informants involved in the study, the time of data collection, and the duration and culture of the area, as suggested by [29]. ...
Up till now, nomadic communities in Africa have been the primary focus of ethnoveterinary research. Although mainly arable and/or mixed arable/pastoral farmers, Ameru of central Kenya are known to have a rich history of ethnoveterinary knowledge. Their c
"For a long time, people have thought about using plant-to-plant interactions inorganic agricultureto protect cropplants, especially when you have intercropping systems," Kessler said. "We are involved in work on a system in Kenya—called 'push-pull' and developed by the International Center for...
Although both men and women use nutraceutical plants to manage opportunistic infections associated with HIV/AIDS, women showed great extent of their traditional knowledge than men (Table1). These results are in agreement with several other reports which found the same tendency in their studies about...
Efforts to collect landraces for genebank conservation have often prioritized sampling from geographic regions and cultures wherein crops were domesticated and/or have been cultivated for a very long time, in recognition of the extraordinary genetic variation in landraces found in these environments1,7,...
One taxon (Majoranasyriaca) in particular was found to be among the most quoted species in almost all areas surveyed. CI values, as a measure of traditional botanical knowledge, for edible species in relatively remote and isolated areas (Qalqilia, and Salfit) were generally higher than for the...
The Rahman’s similarity index (RSI) is used to measure the cultural similarities of indigenous knowledge among different communities in various areas. It is based on the common plant species found in those areas and their uses [36]. The RSI is calculated using the following formula: RSI =da...
Plants have been utilized for health and medicinal benefits for hundreds of years due to their multiple beneficial attributes such as anticancer, antitumor, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antibacterial, anti-ulcer, anti-arthritic, etc. It has been estimated