Plants and Alternative Medicine in Palestine

Abstract

Anthropologists, and mainly medical anthropologists, among other fields, are interested in studying what we eat, how we eat, and why we eat what we eat. This paper will first examine several plants, analyze their properties and uses in alternative medicinal practices in the twenty-first century, within different communities, and according to their way of life in Palestine.

Secondly is to identify the wild plants and their uses for food, as well as medicine etc.

The third purpose is to document the ethno-botanic data on herbal remedies, that are traditionally used.