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Ethnobotanical inventory of medicinal plants used by the Guaymi Indians in western Panama. Part II.
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The results of a literature survey are provided, including medicinal uses, known constituents and pharmacological effects of plants used by the Guaymi Indians of Panama and Costa Rica.About:
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Ethnobotanical survey of the medicinal flora used by the Caribs of Guatemala.
TL;DR: This survey demonstrated that the Carib population of Guatemala has survived in a transcultural environment of African and native Amerindian beliefs.
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Flowering plants used against snakebite.
TL;DR: A list of flowering plants used for the treatment of snakebite has been complied from a variety of literature sources and the identity and mode of action of the chemical substances which might be responsible is discussed.
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Medicinal and ethnoveterinary remedies of hunters in Trinidad.
TL;DR: Ethnomedicines are used by hunters for themselves and their hunting dogs in Trinidad and it is suggested that the medicinal plants exerted a physiological action on the hunter or his dog.
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Snakebites and ethnobotany in the northwest region of Colombia: Part I: traditional use of plants.
Rafael Otero,R. Fonnegra,Silvia L. Jiménez,Vitelbina Núñez,N. Evans,S.P. Alzate,M.E. Garcı́a,Mónica Saldarriaga,G. Del Valle,R.G. Osorio,Álvaro Paúl Díaz,Rafael Valderrama,A. Duque,H.N. Vélez +13 more
TL;DR: In Antioquia and Choco, traditional healers attend 60% of snakebites as mentioned in this paper, with 20 healers with experience in Bothrops, Porthidium and Bothriechis envenomations interviewed between 1996 and 1998.
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Ethnopharmacological survey and in vitro evaluation of wound-healing plants used in South-western Nigeria
TL;DR: Traditional use of many wound-healing plants from Nigeria can be rationalised by activity determined in relevant in vitro investigations of ethanol and aqueous extracts, which support the traditional selection of these plants in South-western Nigeria for wound healing.
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