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  4. Plants in Kenya are becoming increasingly important as sources of traditional medicines. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that malaria kills about 2.7 million people every year, 90% of who are...

    Authors: Grace N Njoroge and Rainer W Bussmann
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:8
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  6. The use and management of "angico" (Anadenanthera colubrina (Vell.) Brenan) by a rural community in northeastern Brazil was examined. By employing different techniques of data collection and population structure ...

    Authors: Júlio Marcelino Monteiro, Cecília de Fátima CB Rangel de Almeida, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena, Alissandra Trajano N Florentino and Rodrigo Leonardo C de Oliveira
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:6
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  7. Malaria is a leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzania changed its malaria treatment policy from chloroquine (CQ) to Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) as first line drug in August 2001. We wanted to...

    Authors: Stephen ED Nsimba
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:5
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  9. More than twelve temperate-inhabitant Mexican ethnic groups are considered to be mycophilic and to have extensive traditional mycological knowledge. In contrast, inhabitants of tropical lands have been studied...

    Authors: Felipe Ruán-Soto, Roberto Garibay-Orijel and Joaquín Cifuentes
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:3
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  10. The Chinese term "Hot Qi" is often used by parents to describe symptoms in their children. The current study was carried out to estimate the prevalence of using the Chinese term "Hot Qi" to describe symptoms i...

    Authors: Flora Y Kong, Daniel K Ng, Chung-hong Chan, Wan-lan Yu, Danny Chan, Ka-li Kwok and Pok-yu Chow
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:2
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  11. Traditional human communities have a wide knowledge of their environment. Collection of animals in estuarine and coastal areas are directly influenced by tidal cycles. The aim of this study is to evaluate the ...

    Authors: Alberto K Nishida, Nivaldo Nordi and Rômulo RN Alves
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:1
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  12. From a conservationist perspective, seahorses are threatened fishes. Concomitantly, from a socioeconomic perspective, they represent a source of income to many fishing communities in developing countries. An i...

    Authors: Ierecê ML Rosa, Rômulo RN Alves, Kallyne M Bonifácio, José S Mourão, Frederico M Osório, Tacyana PR Oliveira and Mara C Nottingham
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:12
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  15. The study of local knowledge about natural resources is becoming increasingly important in defining strategies and actions for conservation or recuperation of residual forests. This study therefore sought to: ...

    Authors: Luiz Rodrigo Saldanha Gazzaneo, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:9
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  17. An ethnopharmacological survey was carried out to collect information on the use of seven medicinal plants in rural areas in the nearby regions of Bamako, Mali. The plants were Opilia celtidifolia, Anthocleista d...

    Authors: Adiaratou Togola, Drissa Diallo, Seydou Dembélé, Hilde Barsett and Berit Smestad Paulsen
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:7
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  19. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that as many as 80% of the world's more than six billion people rely primarily on animal and plant-based medicines. The healing of human ailments by using therapeu...

    Authors: Rômulo RN Alves and Ierecê L Rosa
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Orphans are an increasing problem in developing countries particularly in Africa; due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; and needs collective effort in intervention processes by including all stakeholders right from th...

    Authors: Edmund J Kayombo, Zakaria H Mbwambo and Mariam Massila
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:3
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  22. Research was carried out into agricultural and domestic-handicraft uses in folk traditions in the Tyrrhenian sector of the Basilicata region (southern Italy), as it is typically representative of ethnobotanica...

    Authors: Giovanni Salerno, Paolo Maria Guarrera and Giulia Caneva
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:2
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  23. Ethnobiology is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on approaches and methods from both the social and biological sciences. Ethnobiology aims at investigating culturally based biological and environm...

    Authors: Andrea Pieroni, Lisa Leimar Price and Ina Vandebroek
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:1
    Content type: Editorial Published on:
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