Abstract
The present study was undertaken to investigate whether statistical evaluation of ethnobotanical data enhances the selection of species with pharmacological activities. A database was created for plants used to treat snakebites worldwide, which included 164 plant families, 883 genera and 1521 species (1). Five countries with a high number of entries, representing different cultures, geography and floristic zones were selected: Brazil, Nicaragua, Nepal, China and South Africa. The datasets were analysed by regression and binominal analysis in to see if any „snake-plant family/genera“ was overrepresented in the respective traditional medicinal systems relative to the abundance in the local flora (1). The only genus recognized as a positive outlier was Piper.
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