![]() ![]() ![]() We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 traditional knowledge holders in the municipality, inquiring about the traditional plant uses in the region and collecting botanical voucher specimens for each reported plant. Our objective was to document the traditional knowledge about non-timber plant species in the municipality of Santa María, including uses, common names, and local terms associated with the uses. We present an illustrated field guide to the non-timber plant uses of the municipality of Santa Maria, Boyacá. Brief discussion of phytochemicals and its activities are given in the text and for further details, cited references in the text and tables can be consulted. In this sense, the present chapter aims to provide compilation of references and a detailed overview to the folk medicinal uses of Cucurbita plants. Understanding the nutritional potential of gourd vegetables from scientific reports may influence both the work areas and consumers in the appropriate direction. The versatile utility of gourd vegetables as folk medicine and functional food ingredient provoked a compilation of a comprehensive review of these vegetables about their traditional usage and nutritional and medicinal properties together with their phytochemicals. The scarcity of scientific reports of vegetable gourds compared to the traditional usage and folkloric beliefs has further limited us in proper inclusion of cucurbits in our diet and versatile utility. Secondary metabolites are non nutritive chemical constituents of plants which are restricted in distribution in the particular plant species. The medicinal importance of plants lies in some chemical substances or secondary metabolites that produce a specific physiological action on the human body. ![]() ![]() Cucurbit plants were used actively as traditional herbal remedies for various diseases. ![]()
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