Ethnobotanic knowledge of aborigines in Belum Forest area
Aborigines have been living off the forests for ages. They must have also experienced sicknesses. The resources they have are just the forest. • The forests must also be the resources of ‘medicines’ – primarily plants. Even though the effectiveness is limited, may be due to administration r...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/4053/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/4053/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/4053/1/Ethnobotanic.pdf |
| Summary: | Aborigines have been living off the forests for ages.
They must have also experienced sicknesses. The
resources they have are just the forest.
• The forests must also be the resources of ‘medicines’ –
primarily plants. Even though the effectiveness is
limited, may be due to administration rather than
plants efficacy, their practices have been and still are
very valuable in the development of some aspects of
medicine.
• Scientific study of the relationships between a
community of people and plants in a particular area |
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