Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human MigrationsAndrea Pieroni, Ina Vandebroek The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany? |
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... Skin International, Prospect Hill Foundation, Sony Entertainment, and Maxell Corporation; and the Dominican fieldwork: Allen-Ososki, The City University of New York Graduate School, Fulbright-Hays Research Award, Garden Club of ...
... skin infections 15 11 0.29 (hongos de la piel, mazamorra, paños, manchas blancas en la piel) burns 14 6 0.62 (quemaduras) labor pain and puerperium 13 7 0.50 (dolor del parto, posparto, entuerto) vaginal discharge 11 9 0.20 (flujo ...
... skin conditions, hair care, and constipation (see table 2.2 for references). However, other applications for this species according to the published literature were not recorded in the data subset of New York City. These include its use ...
... skin fungi, incl. A oral, topical skin patches2 Pityriasis versicolor (paños) 3 wounds, cuts and A oral, topical cuts and scratches2, antiscratches hemorrhagic (styptic)1 3 skin and hair care A oral, topical baldness2 3 vaginal ...
... skin infections 2 rheumatism 2 asthma 2 obesity 2 bronchitis and cough 1 insomnia 1 diarrhea 1 1 1 A M A, M A, M M A, M A A, M A flu and common cold M uterus (unspecified) M A M oral oral oral oral topical oral, topical oral oral oral ...
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