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Mururé (Brosimum acutifolium Huber) in the treatment of syphilis in colonial Amazonia: from historical data to the actual contribution in treatment / Erika Fernanda de Matos Vieira, Maria da Graça Ribeiro Campos and Flávia Cristina Araújo Lucas -- Agroecology, local knowledge and participatory research: articulation of knowledge for sustainable use of plant resources in agroecosystems / Santiago Peredo Parada -- The path of ethnopharmacobotany: from economic botany to ethnobotany / Marcelo L. Wagner, Leonardo M. Anconatani, Rafael A. Ricco, Beatriz G. Varela and Gustavo C. Giberti -- Patagonian berries: an ethnobotanical approach to exploration of their nutraceutical potential / Melina F. Chamorro, Ana Ladio and Soledad Molares -- Status of research on medicinal plants in the Cajamarcas region, Peru / Juan F. Seminario Cunya, Berardo Escalante Zumaeta and Alejandro Seminario Cunya -- Recent reports on ethnopharmacological and ethnobotanical studies of Valeriana carnosa sm. (valerianaceae) / Soledad Molares, Ana H. Ladio and Nicolás Nagahama -- Traditional knowledge of antivenom plants: bioactive compounds and their antiophidic properties / Carolina Alves dos Santos, Marco V. Chaud, Valquíria Miwa Hanai Yoshida, Raksha Pandit, Mahendra Rai and Yoko Oshima-Franco -- Ethnobotanical study of Dakshin Dinajpur District : an overview / Tanmay Chowdhury, Subhas Chandra Roy and Dilip De Sarker -- Antipsoriatic medicinal plants: from traditional use to clinic / Ríos J.L., Schinella G.R. and Andújar I -- Knowledge of the ethnomedicinal plants used by Tobas and Mocovíes tribes in the central-north of Argentina / María I. Stegmayer, Norma H. Alvarez, Melina G. Di Liberto, Lucas D. Daurelio and Marcos G. Derita -- Ethnobotany of teucrium species / Milan S. Stankovic and Nenad M. Zlatic -- Ethnobotanical issues on medicinal plants from Paraguay / Rosa Luisa Degen de Arrúa, Yenny González and Esteban A. Ferro B -- An overview of Vetiveria zizanioides (linn.) nash (poaceae): traditi