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1Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. aref@bgu.ac.il
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention : APJCP
|October 21, 2005
Abstract:
This article describes the broad ethno-botany and folk medicine in Palestine. It presents examples of different edible plants and their use by Palestinians in a host of manners, fresh, cooked and dried, both as foodstuffs and treatment of diseases and medical disorders. Their potential application as cancer chemopreventive agents needs to be a focus of research attention.
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