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This document discusses a study of medicinal plant use among communities in the Argentine Yungas region. 259 ethnoespecies from 74 plant families were documented as being used medicinally. Coronopus didymus was found to be the most important species. Methods of use and ailments treated differed between rural doctors and laypeople. Native and exotic plants were used differently depending on the body system treated. Medicinal plant richness was greater in less isolated communities due to external cultural inf

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