Relief of the argentinian northwest plants used in folk medicine

MARTÍNEZ ARRIAZU, M.E.; SGARIGLIA, M.A.; SOBERÓN, J.R.; JAIME, G.S.; QUIROGA, E.N.; VATTUONE, M.A.

Tucumán (Argentina)

Congreso; XXII Annual Meeting of Tucuman Biology Society; 2005

Tucuman Biology Society (publicado en Bio Cell 30 (1))

The use of native and exotic plants as medicinal is frequent in the argentinian northwest. People use and commercialize native and studied plants as herbal medicines, and this use has increased over the last years because the social and economic conditions. That is the reason why it is important to continue the research in this area to catalogue the information about the folk uses of the plants from those places where this knowledge is transmitted from one to another generation. This work shows an index of several vascular plants, ordered by their botanical family, folk and scientific names, and the main ethnobotanical uses of plants from the mentioned region. We show the results of 30 plants studied species. Among them, there are 16 native and 14 cosmopolitan species. This relief contributes to the knowledge of the species used as medicinal in the argentinian northwest.