New contributions to the ethnopharmacology of Spain.

J Ethnopharmacol

Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Spain.

Published: March 1995

In the course of an ethnobotanical research project carried out in the Province of Granada (Southern Spain), 267 taxa have been catalogued as being used in folk medicine. Based on the literature consulted, phytotherapeutic use for 34 of these was recorded for the first time.

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