Herbs as a food and medicine source in Palestine.
This article describes the broad ethno-botany and folk medicine in Palestine. It presents examples of different edible plants and their use by Palestinians in a host of manners, fresh, cooked and dried, both as foodstuffs and treatment of diseases and medical disorders. Their potential application as cancer chemopreventive agents needs to be a focus of research attention.
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Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. aref@bgu.ac.il
D018912:Arabs; D018890:Chemoprevention; D003296:Cooking; D004032:Diet; D019448:Ethnobotany; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008877:Middle East; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control