Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>In Italy, malaria was an endemic disease that was eradicated by the mid-20th century. This paper evaluates the prophylactic and therapeutic remedies used by folk medicine to cure malaria in Calabria (southern Italy).</p> <p>The data has been collected...

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Main Authors: Tagarelli Antonio, Tagarelli Giuseppe, Piro Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-09-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Online Access:http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/6/1/27