Tibetan medicine plurality

Economic Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-253

  Salick, Jan ^a   Byg, Anja ^a   Amend, Anthony ^a,b   Gunn, Bee ^a   Law, Wayne ^a   Schmidt, Heidi ^a  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural variation; Markets; Medicinal plants; Tibetan medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750590157     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2006)60[227:TMP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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