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Traditional knowledge
About: Traditional knowledge is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10825 publications have been published within this topic receiving 202790 citations. The topic is also known as: indigenous knowledge & indigenous knowledge system.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors documented the medicinal and other folk uses of native plants of the area with a view to preserve the ethnobotanical knowledge associated with this area, and found that most of the documented species were used medicinally (78 spp., 44.07%) for the preparation of indigenous recipes and for fodder.
Abstract: Objective To document the medicinal and other folk uses of native plants of the area with a view to preserve the ethnobotanical knowledge associated with this area. Methods The fieldwork was conducted during a period of one year. Data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire and interviews with indigenous tribal people and traditional health practitioners residing in the study area. Results The present study documented ethnobotanical uses of 104 plant species belonged to 93 genera and 51 families. Results revealed that most of the documented species were used medicinally (78 spp., 44.07%). Leaves were found to be the most frequently used part (69 spp., 42.86%) for the preparation of indigenous recipes and for fodder. Conclusions The current research contributes significantly to the ethnobotanical knowledge, and depicts a strong human-plant interaction. There is an urgent need to further document indigenous uses of plants for future domestication.
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TL;DR: The apothecaries' botanical gardens became the sites of the first attempts to classify plants on a global basis as mentioned in this paper, and became the basis of the Hippocratic agendas of medicine and continued to form the dominant basis of European constructions of the extra-European natural world.
Abstract: While the growing volume of new long distance oceanic trade which developed during the fifteenth century helped to stimulate an awareness of the wider world in Western Europe, it also had a much more specific enabling effect on the development of natural history and the status of science in the eyes of government. A rising interest in empirical fact-gathering and experimentation led to a growing enthusiasm for experimentation with new types of medical practice and new drugs. Apothecaries' gardens became established at the universities and were increasingly stocked with plants imported from distant lands. These gardens became the sites of the first attempts to classify plants on a global basis. The voyages of the first century and a half after the journeys of Henry the Navigator from 1415 onwards had already begun to transform the science of botany and to enlarge medical ambitions for the scope of pharmacology and natural history. The foundation of the new botanic gardens was, therefore, clearly connected with the early expansion of the European economic system and remained an accurate indicator, in a microcosm, of the expansion in European knowledge of the global environment. The origins of the gardens in medical practice meant that, as a knowledge of global nature was acquired, the Hippocratic agendas of medicine and medical practitioners continued to form the dominant basis of European constructions of the extra-European natural world.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the cropping system changes that have been taking place and their driving forces and how local farmers have adapted indigenous knowledge and skill in forest management to meet current needs and conditions.
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01 Jan 2003
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01 Jul 2006
TL;DR: An attempt has been made to evaluate plants used for medicare by the tribal people of the Jaunsar area of Garhwal Himalayas as discussed by the authors, which reveals the indigenous medicinal uses of 66 plant species belonging to 52 genera and 41 families.
Abstract: An attempt has been made to evaluate plants used for medicare by the tribal people of the Jaunsar area of Garhwal Himalayas. The study reveals the indigenous medicinal uses of 66 plant species belonging to 52 genera and 41 families by the tribal people of Jaunsar. Ethnomedicinal uses of 17 species recorded in the paper are the first report from the region. Documentation of traditional knowledge on the ethnomedicinal uses of these plants is essential for conservation efforts for the plant resources and new drug development.
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