Mercury: the beginnings in the medicalization of common names of medicinal plants in Brazil

Mercury: the beginnings in the medicalization of common names of medicinal plants in Brazil

Abstract Medicalization of common names of medicinal plants is a process that involves replacing popular native names by trademarked names of drugs, active principles or therapeutic indications used by modern biomedicine. In Brazil, this process seems to have been intensified in the early 2000s due...

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Main Authors:	Bruno Vilson Leal Siqueira, Cássia Mônica Sakuragui, Bruno Eleres Soares, Danilo Ribeiro de Oliveira
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro 2020-07-01
Series:	Rodriguésia
Subjects:	ethnobotany ethnotaxonomy historical research merbromin pharmacy
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-78602020000100710&tlng=en

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