Research Article
The Meaning of Plants’ Names: A New Discovering Approach to Its Medicinal and/or Toxic Properties
Figure 3
The 17 categories of bioprospecting classification considering each species in their three dimensions: possible biological property (according to the lexicon of the plant), ethnobotanical/ethnopharmacological, and pharmacological data. Bioprospecting classification: andrology (AND), antidote (ANT), cancer (CAN), cardiovascular diseases (CAR), dermatologic disorders (DER), ophthalmic problems (EYE), food (FOO), gastrointestinal problems (GAS), gynecology (GYN), infections (INF), metabolic syndromes (MET), nervous system (NER), parasites (PAR), poisons (POI), respiratory complaints (RES), skeletomuscular system (SKE), and urology (URO).