Short-term temporal analysis and children's knowledge of the composition of important medicinal plants: the structural core hypothesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measures of the importance of medicinal plants have long been used in ethnobotany and ethnobiology to understand the influence of social-ecological system factors in the formation of individuals' differential knowledge and use. However, there is still a gap in empirical studies that seek to understand the temporal aspects of this process.

Methods

To overcome this issue, we used the concept of the structural core of medicinal plants, a theoretical-evolutionary model, which argues that the importance of medicinal plant resources is related to the increase in individual and population fitness. It represents the set of the most effective and available resources that would treat the most common diseases in an environment. This composition of knowledge would be conserva

SUBMITTER: Sousa DCP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9270830 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature