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- Title
Forest plot as a tool to demonstrate the pharmaceutical potential ofplants in a tropical forest of Panama
- Authors
Condit, Richard; Foster, Robin; Farnsworth, Norman R.; Pezzuto, John M.; Gupta, Mahabir P.; Angerhofer, Cindy K.; Soejarto, Djaja D.; Calderon, Angela I.
- Abstract
In this paper the validity of the homegardens in Catalonia is analyzed from data obtained in two ethnobotanical studies carried out in the districts (comarques) of Pallars Jussa and Pallars Sobira (Pyrenees) and in the Montseny Massif (Catalan Prelittoral Range). We classified nine groups of plants by their uses anct their situation in the homegarden. We centered our analysis on medicinal plants lato sensu (curative, palliative, symptomatic, prophylactic, used for diagnosis, placebos or with other health uses). More than 50% of the species used in these regions are in the homegardens, either expressly cultivated,wild, or indirectly favored by agricultural practices. If the whole range of human daily activity is considered (including the ruderal and weedy flora, and plants cultivated in fields and orchards) the proportion surpasses 80%.
- Subjects
PANAMA; HERBAL medicine; BOTANY
- Publication
Economic Botany, 2000, Vol 54, Issue 3, p278
- ISSN
0013-0001
- Publication type
Article