MEDICINAL PLANTS
of the Peruvian Amazon
an introduction to ethnobotanical treasures in the Amazonian region of Perú


Information Source References
1998. Castner, J.L., S.L. Timme and J.A. Duke.  A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon.  Feline Press, P.O. Box 7219, Gainesville, FL. 32605 USA.

1994. Duke, J.A. and Rodolfo Vasquez. Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Ann Arbor, London, Tokyo.

2000. Mejia, Kember and Esa Rengifo.  Plantas Medicinales de Uso Popular en la Amazonía Peruana. Second edition. Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI) and the Instituto de Investigaciónes de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP).

1997. Pinedo, M.P., Elsa Rengifo and T. Cerruti. S. Plantas Medicinales de la Amazonía Peruana: Estudio de su Uso y Cultivo. Instituto de Investigaciónes de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP).

1995. Silva Delgado, H and Alberto García Ruíz, Roger Alvarado Donayre, Juan García Ruíz, Mario Pinedo Pnduro, and Teodoro Cerrutti Sifuentes.  Plantas Medicinales de la Amazonía Peruana.  Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social and Instituto de Medicina Tradicional, Iquitos.


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