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This book offers a broad summary of the wild plants and their usage, as well as the growing interest in ethnopharmacology research. The book comprises of important issues such as diversity of wild plants with emphasis on medicinal and food plants, threats to wild plants and traditional ethnobotanical knowledge, their uses in skin diseases, snake-bites, in cosmeceuticals, etc. Moreover, the ethnopharmacological relevance of wild plants in Latin America has been discussed. The chapters include a wide range of case studies, giving updated evidence on the importance of their wild plant resources from different countries including Peru, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Brazil. In addition, some specific species are used to explain their potential properties, as well as the dangers of their use without guidance of trained natural healers. The book discusses traditional usage and properties of wild plants and is entirely different from other related publications and useful for the researchers working in the areas of conservation biology, botany, ethnobiology, ethnopharmacology, policymakers, etc.

Book details

• Full title: Wild Plants
• Subtitle: The Treasure of Natural Healers
• Author: Chistiane M. Feitosa, Shandesh Bhattarai, Mahendra Rai
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 460
• EAN: 9780367820879
• ISBN: 0367820870
• ID: 32905453
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 1143 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. November 2020

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