An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in Zacatecas state, Mexico

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5586/asbp.3581" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5586/asbp.3581</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5586/asbp.3581" target="_blank" >10.5586/asbp.3581</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in Zacatecas state, Mexico
Original language description
Despite the fact that Mexico has vast biocultural biodiversity, there are numerous regions where the traditional medicinal use of plants has not yet been studied. We aimed to document, analyze quantitatively, and preserve medicinal plant knowledge among local people living in over 40 communities in the state of Zacatecas. Ethnobotanical information was collected by semi-structured interviews with 132 informants. Data were analyzed using standard quantitative indices such as relative frequency of citation, family importance value, cultural importance index, and informant consensus factor. We recorded 168 medicinal plant taxa belonging to 151 genera and 69 botanical families and used to treat 99 health disorders. The most medicinally important plant families was Asteraceae (20 species). The most culturally important species was Matricaria chamomilla L., mentioned 140 times. The highest consensus for use was for diseases of the reproductive system. The type of disorder for which there was the highest nu
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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