Ethnomedicine in Tonga

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1971 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Economic Botany, volume 25, pages 423-450 (issn: 0013-0001, eissn: 1874-9364,

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Authors: Michael A. Weiner;

doi: 10.1007/bf02985210

Ethnomedicine in Tonga

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Local medical practices in this Pacific archipelago are reviewed, the folk taxonomy and medicinal uses of 71 plants are discussed, and the medicinal applications of each species in some other regions of the Pacific are enumerated. Included are the plant parts used, Tongan names, the illnesses, and the preparations of the remedies.

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