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Ethnobotany of Tuberculosis in Laos

Ethnobotany of Tuberculosis in Laos

Elkington, Bethany Gwen
Soejarto, Djaja Djendoel
Sydara, Kongmany

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Plant Science

Botany & HorticultureChemistryEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 3319106554
ISBN13: 9783319106557
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 26 2014
Pages: 109
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book highlights the common ground between biomedicine and traditional healing. Because of the destruction of forests, the degradation of old palm leaf manuscripts, and decreasing interest in traditional medicine by younger generations, it is becoming more and more important to record medicinal plant knowledge before it is lost. This research provides written and photographic documentation of some of the medicinal plant knowledge held by the people of Laos. Translating and validating some of the power of traditional medicine used in Laos into biomedical terms through laboratory analyses may serve to demonstrate its importance in a global language. In this text, the translational research was performed through in vitro laboratory analyses of select plant species with a history to treat symptoms of TB. The processes of plant collection, extraction, biological assays, and isolation/elucidation are also described and detailed in the Biochemical Validation section.

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