An ethnobotanical study of the traditional medicine of the Mestizo people of Suni Miraño, Loreto, Peru.
Research on the ethnobotany of Mestizos in Suni Miraño in 1994 documented 60 plant species used for medicinal purposes. Some cultural data on traditional healing and etiology were also collected. Of these 60 species, 31 were submitted to antibacterial and antifungal assays in the presence and absence of UV light and a number of species were shown to be active.
Jovel
E M
EM
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Cabanillas
J
J
Towers
G H
GH
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002175:Candida / Q000187:drug effects; D003470:Culture Media; D019448:Ethnobotany; D007199:Indians, South American; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D000432:Methanol / Q000737:chemistry; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D010568:Peru; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000528:radiation effects
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000935:Antifungal Agents; D003470:Culture Media; D010936:Plant Extracts; D000432:Methanol