Health for sale: the medicinal plant markets in Trujillo and Chiclayo, Northern Peru.

ABSTRACT: Traditional methods of healing have been beneficial in many countries with or without access to conventional allopathic medicine. In the United States, these traditional practices are increasingly being sought after for illnesses that cannot be easily treated by allopathic medicine. More and more people are becoming interested in the knowledge maintained by traditional healers and in the diversity of medicinal plants that flourish in areas like Northern Peru. While scientific studies of medicinal plants are underway, concern has arisen over the preservation of both the large diversity of medicinal plants and the traditional knowledge of healing methods that accompanies them. To promote further conservation work, this study attempted to document the sources of the most popular and rarest me

SUBMITTER: Bussmann RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2245918 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature