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Chapter 2 provides comprehensive introduction of ethnobotany and ethnomedicines. The first part of this chapter includes information related to historical prospective of ethnobotany, aims of ethnobotanical investigation, its significance and future potential. Besides this ethnobotanical potential of wild edible food resources, particularly the wild edible vegetables and their socio-economic consequence are also discussed. The second part of this chapter deals with detail history of ethnomedicines and ethnomedicinal values of wild edible food resources with particular reference to Himalayan region of Pakistan.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Arshad Mehmood Abbasi (PhD)

  2. Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Munir Hussain Shah (PhD)

  3. Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Mir Ajab Khan (PhD)

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Abbasi, A.M., Shah, M.H., Khan, M.A. (2015). Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine. In: Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09543-1_2

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