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ArticleBioMed research international2017

Ethnobotany of Indigenous Saraguros: Medicinal Plants Used by Community Healers "Hampiyachakkuna" in the San Lucas Parish, Southern Ecuador.

José M Andrade, Hernán Lucero Mosquera, Chabaco Armijos

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Article in BioMed research international, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

José M AndradeDepartment of Chemistry, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, P.O. Box 11-01-608, Loja, Loja Province, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0003-0181-3065
Hernán Lucero MosqueraDepartment of Natural Sciences, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, P.O. Box 11-01-608, Loja, Loja Province, Ecuador.
Chabaco ArmijosDepartment of Chemistry, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, P.O. Box 11-01-608, Loja, Loja Province, Ecuador.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper reports the results of an ethnobotanical survey on the use of medicinal plants by community healers "Hampiyachakkuna" in the San Lucas Parish, province of Loja, Ecuador. A particular ethnic group, the indigenous Saraguros, inhabits this region. This study reports 183 plant species used in 75 different curative therapies by the Saraguro healers.

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EthnicityEthnobotanyMedicine, TraditionalPlants, MedicinalEcosystemEcuadorGeographyHumansKnowledgeSpecies Specificity

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PMID28744470
PMCPMC5514338

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