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- Title
Ethnobotany of Immunomodulatory Treatments Used by the Q'eqchi' Maya of Belize.
- Authors
Walshe-Roussel, Brendan; Otarola Rojas, Marco; Sanchez Vindas, Pablo; Pesek, Todd; Cal, Victor; Arnason, John Thor
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
BELIZE; ETHNOBOTANY; THERAPEUTICS; MAYAS; PLANT species; ADIANTACEAE; ASTERACEAE
- Publication
Economic Botany, 2019, Vol 73, Issue 2, p154
- ISSN
0013-0001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12231-019-09451-6