Traditional medicinal plants in South Tyrol (northern Italy, southern Alps): biodiversity and use
Worldwide mountain regions are recognized as hotspots of ethnopharmacologically relevant species diversity. In South Tyrol (Southern Alps, Italy), and due to the region ’s high plant diversity and isolated popu... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - November 26, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Joshua Petelka, Barbara Plagg, Ina S äumel and Stefan Zerbe Tags: Review Source Type: research

Catalan ethnoflora: a meta-analytic approach to life forms and geographic territories
Catalonia (in the north east of the Iberian Peninsula) is among the most prospected territories in Europe, from the ethnobotanical point of view. The aim of the present paper is to undertake a global analysis ... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - November 25, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Airy Gras, Montse Parada, Joan Vall ès and Teresa Garnatje Tags: Research Source Type: research

The secret of health in daily cuisine: typical healthy vegetables in local markets in central Myanmar
Central Myanmar is located in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, and the Bamar people are the main ethnic group, which settled there over 1000 years ago. Despite being the core region of the country, central... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - November 25, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yu Zhang, Jian-Wen Li, Myint Myint San, Cory William Whitney, Thae Thae San, Xue-Fei Yang, Aye Mya Mon and Pyae Phyo Hein Tags: Research Source Type: research

Medicinal ethnobotany of wild plants: a cross-cultural comparison around Georgia-Turkey border, the Western Lesser Caucasus
The Mountains of the Western Lesser Caucasus with its rich plant diversity, multicultural and multilingual nature host diverse ethnobotanical knowledge related to medicinal plants. However, cross-cultural medi... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - November 23, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Ceren Kazanc ı, Soner Oruç and Marine Mosulishvili Tags: Research Source Type: research

Cultural keystone species revisited: are we asking the right questions?
The cultural keystone species theory predicts plant species that are culturally important, play a role in resource acquisition, fulfil a psycho-socio-cultural function within a given culture, have high use-val... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - November 11, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Michael A. Coe and Orou G. Gaoue Tags: Review Source Type: research

“Peruvian balsam”: an example of transoceanic transfer of medicinal knowledge
Connections between China and the new Spanish colonies in America are known for an exchange of silver for silks and porcelains. That also medicinal drugs and medicinal knowledge crossed the Pacific Ocean is ha... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - November 9, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Angela Schottenhammer Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethnoichthyology of freshwater fish in Europe: a review of vanishing traditional fisheries and their cultural significance in changing landscapes from the later medieval period with a focus on northern Europe
Fishing is probably one of the oldest economic activities in the history of humankind. Lakes, rivers and streams in Europe are important elements in the European landscape with a rich diversity of fish and oth... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 30, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Ingvar Svanberg and Alison Locker Tags: Review Source Type: research

Urban gardening and neglected and underutilized species in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Urban agriculture has been evidenced as a food production and environmental sustainability strategy, although it faces many obstacles in Latin American countries. Additionally, in urban areas, low consumption ... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 29, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Manuela Alves da Cunha, Lidice Almeida Arlego Paraguass ú, José Geraldo de Aquino Assis, Arthur Benjamin de Paula Carvalho Silva and Ryzia de Cassia Vieira Cardoso Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethnobotanical survey of the medicinal flora of Harighal, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan
The present study is the first quantitative ethnobotanical evaluation of Harighal, an inaccessible and unexplored area of District Bagh Azad Jammu& Kashmir (AJK). The exploration, quantification, and comparis... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 27, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Muhammad Shoaib Amjad, Ujala Zahoor, Rainer W. Bussmann, Muhammad Altaf, Syed Mubashar Hussain Gardazi and Arshad Mehmood Abbasi Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethnobotanical study on wild edible plants used by three trans-boundary ethnic groups in Jiangcheng County, Pu ’er, Southwest China
Dai, Hani, and Yao people, in the trans-boundary region between China, Laos, and Vietnam, have gathered plentiful traditional knowledge about wild edible plants during their long history of understanding and u... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 27, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yilin Cao, Ren Li, Shishun Zhou, Liang Song, Ruichang Quan and Huabin Hu Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants used by Baka people in southeastern Cameroon
Forest inhabitants worldwide, and indigenous people especially, have depended for generations on plants and animals harvested in these ecosystems. A number of Baka hunter-gatherer populations in south-eastern ... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 22, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Pascal Eric Billong Fils, Natacha Afiong Nana, Jean Lagarde Betti, Oumar Farick Njimbam, St éphanie Tientcheu Womeni, Eva Ávila Martin, Guillermo Ros Brull, Robert Okale, John E. Fa and Stephan M. Funk Tags: Research Source Type: research

Bamboos for weaving and relevant traditional knowledge in Sansui, Southwest China
Traditional bamboo weaving has been practiced for centuries in Sansui, a county dominated by the Miao people, in Guizhou province of Southwest China. Sansui bamboo weaving represents an intangible cultural her... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 20, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Binsheng Luo, Selena Ahmed and Chunlin Long Tags: Research Source Type: research

Utilitarian redundancy in local medical systems - theoretical and methodological contributions
The utilitarian redundancy model (URM) is one of the recent contributions to ethnobiology. We argue that URM can be applied to access use-pressure on plant species, the resilience of socioecological systems (e... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 16, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Patr ícia Muniz de Medeiros, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior and Fabiane da Silva Queiroz Tags: Review Source Type: research

Ethnobotanical study on plants used for traditional beekeeping by Dulong people in Yunnan, China
The Dulong (Drung) people have used plant materials in traditional beekeeping for many decades. However, there are few studies on the plants used in traditional beekeeping. Furthermore, traditional ecological ... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 14, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Zhuo Cheng, Binsheng Luo, Qiong Fang and Chunlin Long Tags: Research Source Type: research

Wild edible plants collected and consumed by the locals in Daqinggou, Inner Mongolia, China
This study aimed to conduct a detailed investigat... (Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)
Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - October 9, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sachula, Geilebagan, Yan-ying Zhang, Hui Zhao and Khasbagan Tags: Research Source Type: research