Studies on pharmaceutical ethnobotany in Arrábida Natural Park (Portugal)

• Main Author: Novais, Maria Helena
• Publication Date: 2004
• Other Authors: Santos, Isabel, Mendes, Sónia, Pinto-Gomes, Carlos
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/37284; https://doi.org/Novais M.H., Santos I., Mendes S. & C. Pinto-Gomes, 2004. Studies on pharmaceutical ethnobotany in Arrábida Natural Park (Portugal). Journal of Ethnopharmacology 93/2-3:183–195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2004.02.015; https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2004.02.015
• topic: Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Portugal; Arrabida natural park

An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in Arrabida Natural Park, a Portuguese Protected Area in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, with an area of 10 820 ha.Working with 72 local people, data on medicinal uses of 156 taxa, belonging to 56 botanical families, were obtained and presented, of which 214 uses corresponding to 81 taxa were previously unreported.