Ethnobotany: From the Traditional to Ethnopharmacology

In this book we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments stem from the lack of efficiency of existing remedies for certain illnesses. We have compiled information that may be useful to researchers in their quest to develop new drugs.

José L. Martinez is a chemical biologist of 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. 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 plants-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 Aníbal Domínguez＂. 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 member of Medicinal Plants of the Argentine Institute of Material Rationalization (IRAM).