Use of medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals by indigenous communities in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon

• Main Authors: Vandebroek Ina (Author), Calewaert Jan-Bart (Author), De jonckheere Stijn (Author), Sanca Sabino (Author), Semo Lucio (Author), Van Damme Patrick (Author), Van Puyvelde Luc (Author), De Kimpe Norbert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate, by means of household surveys, the use of medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals in Apillapampa, a large Andean community of Quechua peasants, and in six small communities of Yuracaré-Trinitario "slash-and-burn" cultivators of the National Park Isiboro-Sécure (th...