Actualized inventory of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Oaxaca, Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oaxaca is one of the most diverse states in Mexico from biological and cultural points of view. Different ethnic groups living there maintain deep and ancestral traditional knowledge of medicinal plants as well as traditional practices and beliefs about diseases/illnesses and cures. Previous ethnobotanical research in this state has helped document this knowledge, but with the addition of more studies, more records appear. We updated the inventory of medicinal knowledge between the different ethnic groups that inhabit the Oaxacan territory.

Methods

A database was constructed from two sources: (1) original data from a 3-year project in 84 municipalities of Oaxaca inhabited by eight ethnic groups and (2) different electronic databases.

Results

Records of 1032

SUBMITTER: Lucia CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7874459 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature