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Ethnophysiology and herbal treatments of intestinal worms in Dominica, West Indies

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnopharmacology, April 2002
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Title
Ethnophysiology and herbal treatments of intestinal worms in Dominica, West Indies
Published in
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, April 2002
DOI 10.1016/s0378-8741(02)00002-8
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Authors

Marsha B Quinlan, Robert J Quinlan, Justin M Nolan

Abstract

In rural Dominican ethnophysiology worms reside in a human organ called the 'worm bag'. Unchecked, worms can cause illness by growing in size and number, spreading out of the worm bag and into other organs. In this study of 'bush medicine', we use a measure of cognitive salience in free-listing tasks, which reveals five plants commonly used to treat intestinal worms. These were Ambrosia hispida (Asteraceae), Aristolochia trilobata (Aristlochiaceae), Chenopodium ambrosioides (Chenopodiaceae), Portulaca oleracea (Portulacaceae), and Artemisia absinthium (Asteraceae). Bioactive compounds appear to be present in all of these plants. The cognitive salience of these plant remedies coupled with evidence of biochemical properties suggest that they provide efficacious treatments for controlling intestinal parasite loads.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Puerto Rico 1 1%
Unknown 95 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 16%
Student > Master 13 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 16 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 34%
Social Sciences 11 11%
Environmental Science 9 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 5%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 21 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 June 2006.
All research outputs
#8,534,976
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Ethnopharmacology
#2,270
of 7,311 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,272
of 128,681 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnopharmacology
#9
of 19 outputs
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