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- Title
Medicinal Plants and Ethnomedicine in Peril: A Case Study from Nepal Himalaya.
- Authors
Kunwar, Ripu M.; Pandey, Mina Lamichhane; Kunwar, Laxmi Mahat; Bhandari, Ananta
- Abstract
The impacts of climate change were severe on indigenous medicinal plant species and their dependent communities. The harvesting calendar and picking sites of these species were no longer coinciding and the changes were affecting harvesters' and cultivators' abilities to collect and use those species. Secondary sites: road-heads, wastelands, regenerated forests, and so forth, were being prioritized for collection and the nonindigenous medicinal plant species were being increasingly introduced into the medical repertoire as a substitution and to diversify the localmedicinal stock. Acceptance and application of nonindigenous species and sites for livelihood and ethnopharmacopoeias with caution were considered as an important adaptation strategy. Findings on species and site specific accounts urged further researches on medicinal plants, ethnomedicine, and their interrelationship with impacts of climate change.
- Subjects
NEPAL; THERAPEUTIC use of plant extracts; MEDICINAL plants; ACTION research; AGRICULTURE; ALTERNATIVE medicine; CLIMATOLOGY; CONSERVATION of natural resources; ENVIRONMENTAL health; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; GREENHOUSE effect; HEALERS; HORTICULTURE; INTERVIEWING; MULTIVARIATE analysis; SCIENTIFIC observation; PLANT physiology; RESEARCH funding; TRADITIONAL medicine; PHENOTYPES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (eCAM), 2014, Vol 2014, p1
- ISSN
1741-427X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2014/792789