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In this book, the editors present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments stems from the lack of efficiency of existing remedies for certain illnesses. The editors have compiled information that may be useful to researchers in their quest to develop new drugs.
Part 1: Ethnobotany
1. The Genus Aloysia Palau (Verbenaceae) in Argentina. A Paradigm in Ethnobotany
2. Ethnobotany of Medicinal and Sacred Plants with Ethnopharmacological Potential from Southwestern Colombia
3. Ethnobotanical Uses and Potential Pharmaceutical Applications of the Cactaceae Family
4. Traditional Use of Plants in Mexico for the Treatment of Diabetes: An Ethnopharmacological Review and Scientific Evaluations
5. Limits and Risks of Plants Valorization in Morocco Associated with Their Vernacular Names
6. Resilience of Mapuche Health System and the Influence of COVID-19
Part 2: Traditional Knowledge of Useful Plants
7. Medicinal Use of the Plants of the Atacama Desert
8. Local Botanical Knowledge of Plants Associated with Andean and Chinese Traditions in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (Argentina): An Urban Ethnobotany Study
9. Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Mopane (Colophospermum mopane) in Southern African Countries
10. Traditional Medicine of the Kichwa of the Upper Napo
11. Traditional Practices Regarding the Use of Botanicals to Treat Bovine Haemonchosis in Pakistan
José L. Martinez is a chemical biologist at the University of Santiago of Chile and gained his MSc from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He works at the Direction of Scientific and Technological Research of the University of Santiago, Chile. He is the Editor and founder of the Latin American and Caribbean Bulletin of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (BLACPMA) and Medicinal Plant Communications; and a member of the editorial committee of numerous journals and editor of several books on medicinal plants.
Alfred Maroyi is a Full Professor in the Department of Botany, University of Fort Hare, South Africa, with a doctorate in Ethnobotany and Plant Systematics from Wageningen University, Netherlands. In his research, he focuses on plant-people relationships, ethnobotany, phytochemical and pharmacological properties of plant species. He also conducts research on plant ecology, plant systematics, biodiversity conservation and ethnobiology, i.e., local environmental knowledge (LEK) systems, folk perceptions, uses and management of wild and cultivated plants.
Marcelo L. Wagner is a tenured Professor of Pharmacobotany at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, and Director of the Museum of Pharmacobotany "Juan Anibal Dominguez". He is a full academician of the National Academy of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. He has served as the Director of Dominguezia journal, is a full member of the Medicinal Plants of the Argentine Pharmacopeia, and is a member of Medicinal Plants of the Argentine Institute of Material Rationalization (IRAM).
